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SCIENTIFIO NAMES—PRONUNCIATION. ort 
This is the whole secret ‘of placing the accent correctly, and it is 
seen that accuracy depends upon our knowing whether the last syllable 
but one is long or short. Of course if the word has only two syllables 
there is no choice, asin Rhe’um, Thu’ya; and it only remains to indicate, 
as far as possible, the cases in which rules can be given for words of more 
than two syllables. 
(1) Ithas been said that a vowel immediately preceding another is 
short; a few exceptions have been already mentioned incidentally, as 
Coni‘um, Sila‘iis, Aizo’én, and there is also the large class of generic names 
ending in -ea and -ewm, as Ostre’a, Prote’a, Centaure’a, Staphyle’a, Hera- 
cle’um. A small number of these, which are simply adjectives, are accented 
onthe antepenult, as Aza/lea, Casta’nea, and the same must be done with 
all other adjectives ending similarly, such as lu’téa, purpu’réa, crusta’céa, 
the -ea in which has quite a different origin ; through ignorance of this some 
persons affect the barbarous pronunciation lute’a, purpure’a, etc. 
(2) There are a number of terminations in which the penultimate 
is generally long :— 
-ides, -ida, (meaning “like,”) as deltoides, 7.e., delto-ides, Molluscoida ; 
compare Petaloides, Crinoidea, Nematoideum (see “Midland 
Naturalist,” Vol. I., p. 150.) Though in all such words the o and 7 should 
be pronounced separately, in truly naturalised words they form a 
diphthong of course, as anthropoid, colloid, eycloid, &c. 
-Glis, as Trienta‘lis; exc. O’xalis, Corydalis, Cau’calis. 
-chilus, “a lip,” as Conochi‘lus, Cetochi‘lus. 
-Imus, -énus, -Gnus, etc., as alpinus, Elati’ne, Paludi’na, veluti‘num, 
Lapsa‘na, Dicra’num, Ole’nus, Sile’ne ; exc. Fra’xinus, Ri’cinus, Car’pinus, 
Pla/tanus, Ba/lanus, Ra’phinus, Caly’méne, Stropho’meéna, and all those 
ending in -crinus, as Penta’crinus. 
~igo, -dgo, -tigo, as Verti’go, Planta’go, Asper’ugo. 
-ites, etc., as Phragmi’tes, Limeni‘tis, piperi’ta, Ananchy’tes. 
-nema, ‘a thread,” as Trichone’ma, Hyalone’ma. 
-Otus, etc., ‘an ear,” as Stephano’tus, Dio’tis. 
~urus, “a tail,” as Lagu’rus, Podu’ra, Hippu’ris. 
There is also the termination -oda. When preceded by p the o is 
short, as will be seen below; but, in most other cases, it is the same 
ending as occurs in the Greek word dendrédes, ‘‘ like a tree,” and must be 
pronounced similarly. Thus the Ostraco’da are the (bivalve) ‘“ shell-like” 
group of the crustacea. So Cesto’da, Nemato’da, Tortrico’des, &c. This 
ending should be -odea in the plural, and some authors write it so, as 
Ostraco’dea, etc. 
(3) The chief terminations in which the penult is generally short are :— 
-ides, -ide, -idide, etc., as Pota’mides, H’quide, Cra’niadee. It will 
be seen that the first of these—ides—may be invariably distinguished 
from the termination -ides, and those related to it, by the absence of the 
inserted 0, which occurs in all such words as hypnoides, and here it may 
be noticed that the absence of this o is a sufficient reason why the 
derivation given in all botanical books that I have seen for Ceratidium, 
