CLASSIFICATION 163 



Nomenclature of Forms. The nomenclature of wheats in all countries 

 is in hopeless confusion ; the same form is frequently found under 

 many different names, and totally different forms are often given the 

 same name. The trouble is not modern, for mediaeval names for the 

 same form of wheat are abundant : it has, however, increased in recent 

 times, and there is no prospect that it will ever cease. 



Some of the evil effects of the confusion might be mitigated by detailed 

 and illustrated descriptions of the wheats of each country, and the use of 

 the name of an old-established form for another form belonging to a 

 different variety should be prohibited. For example, the name " Velvet 

 Chaff " sometimes given to " Preston," a smooth-glumed form, should 

 not be allowed, nor should the name " Browick," originally given to a 

 red-chaffed form, be permitted for a white-glumed wheat as at present 

 in England. 



The application of a new name to an old form cannot be prevented, 

 but official lists of synonyms and names of forms found after extended 

 trials to be closely similar in morphological characters would be of much 

 service to the present generation and of value in the future. 



