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Hans Hallier (Hamburg). 
4) to give to art. 38 the following form: 
Art. G. 38. Just as the names of species are composed by 
adding a specific epithet to the generic name, so the names of 
subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms ete. are also derived from 
the name of the species by addition of a further specific epithet 
(surname) for every one of the successive categories of rank, each 
epithet to be preceded however by a corresponding designation 
of rank, such as subsp., var., subvar., forma (f.) ete., or only 
by a letter or by a cardinal number. To designate forms and 
other slight or occasional modifications of spontaneous plants, 
the letters or numbers are sufficient also by themselves, without 
any epithet, only with short diagnostie notes, viz. «. flore albo, 
ß. flore pleno. 
Thus, differently from the names of species, the names of 
lower ranks can never be binary, but ought to be always at least 
ternary, that is composed of three separate terms. It depends 
however entirely on the nature of every single case, whether a 
species in question is subdivided in complete succession of all the 
degrees of rank into subspecies, varieties, subvarieties ete., or 
immediately into varieties or forms, with the only restrietion, not 
to form the inferior degrees without having formed first the 
corresponding superior degrees, viz.no subvarieties without varieties. 
5) to complete art. 60 alinea I in the following way: 
Art. 60. Nobody should admit a name in the following cases: 
1° If this name is applied in the vegetable kingdom to a 
group named before by an acceptable name, the term „name“ to 
be understood in the sense of section 2, chiefly of the articles 
17 sexies, B. 31 and G. 33 (Kew rule). 
6) to revise the Candollean regulations thoroughly in the sense of these 
propositions and to replace, for instance, everywhere the term „specific 
name“ by „specific epithet“ and the expression „combination of names“ 
by „eompound name“. The author of these propositions declares him- 
self willing to accept a commission that might be entrusted to him 
in this regard (see above p. 40). 
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