352 NOMENCLATURE, . 234. 



matic nomenclature contains the rules, after which it may 

 be provided with a correct denomination. 



. 234. NAME OF THE ORDER. 



In the Natural History of the Mineral King- 

 dom, the Order is the highest idea expressed in the 

 systematic nomenclature. The order consequently 

 will bear the simple name. 



It depends entirely upon the kind of the system and of 

 the classified objects themselves, whether the genus or the 

 order should be that higher idea above the species, which 

 bears the simple name. If the order be produced by the 

 analytical process of division, as in the Linnean system in 

 Botany, or if the system itself, to which the nomenclature 

 refers, be an analytical system (. 229.), and if moreover 

 the orders contain a vast number of genera, and these ge- 

 nera again a vast number of species : then it will be more 

 advisable to fix the name upon the genus, and to be con- 

 tented with the advantages thus arising to the mode of 

 denomination. By placing the name upon the order, the 

 nomenclature would be rendered more difficult, without 

 becoming more useful. For in an analytical or artificial 

 system, there exists no similarity among the classified ob- 

 jects (. 229.) ; and a nomenclature expressing the order 

 would not serve to simplify or illustrate the general sur- 

 vey of the objects ; it would rather serve to produce confu- 

 sion. On the other hand, it could not but be useful, even in 

 Botany, to fix the name upon the order, supposing the sys- 

 tem to which the nomenclature refers to be the natural sys- 

 tem. Si classes naturalcs essent inventce omnes, maximc arridc- 

 ret terminatio nominum conformis in ajpnibits, iii nimia mnfat'/o 

 prohibcret. LINN. Crit. Bot. In the Natural History of 

 the Mineral Kingdom, however, the system itself, and con- 

 sequently also the order, is a natural or synthetical one ; 

 hence there exists a connexion among the classified objects, 

 which may, and even must be expressed by means of the 



