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6) de rediger le reglement de DC. en entier au sens des propositions 
ci-dessus, en remplacant partout le terme „nom specifique“ par 
„epithete specifique“ et l’expression „combinaison de noms“ par 
„nom compose“. L’auteur de ces propositions accepterait volontiers 
cette redaction du r&glement, si on lui confie la m&me (voy. ci-dessus 
p. 40). 
English text. 
Referring to the arguments explained above in German, I recommend 
to the Vienna Congress of 1905 the following propositions: 
1) not to admit in the new regulations of nomenclature any of those 
| expressions, which might give them the appearance of a matter of 
legislation, law or critieism, viz. „law, legal, legitimate, legislative, 
legislation, code, canon“ etc. 
2) to insert before the first $ of the second section of the Paris regulations 
of 1867 the following $: 
S 1. On the grammatical classification of the names. 
Art. 17 sexies. In scientific language as in Latin and in 
modern languages, the designations of the groups of plants are 
of two different kinds, namely proper nouns and surnames, the 
former being substantives or adjectives used as substantives and 
intelligible by themselves, viz. Clematis, (plantae) Ranunculaceae, 
the latter being adjectives or exceptionally substantives used as 
adjectives, which are no names by themselves but are only 
intelligible in connection with a proper noun, viz. vulgarıs 
(Pulsatilla), Lingua (Ranunculus Lingua). Accordingly the names 
of the groups of plants are either simple (proper nouns) or 
compound (combinations of a proper noun and one or more 
surnames, viz. /pomoea crassipes var. ovata subvar. natalensis 
forma brevipes). 
3) to give to art. 31 the following form: 
Art. B. 31. The names of species, including those, which 
form a genus by themselves, are not simple, but binary, that is, 
they are composed of the name of that genus, to which the 
species in question belongs, and of a specific term of a commonly 
adjective nature. In scientific language as in other languages, 
the specific epithets by themselves are neither names nor have 
any claim to priority. 
