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nized, but also to avoid the possible confusion of two compounds 



otherwise exactly alike. 1 



The following list will serve to illustrate the more frequent 



errors in transliteration, and their correction. 



Adenocaulon = Adenocaulum (or, much better, Adenocaulus, 



the last term being xaiAds, o, stalk) ; Lachnocaulum 

 Agropyron = Agropyrum (TTV/>OS, o, wheat) 

 Aerophy ton = Aerophy turn (<im>V, TO, plant); Petrophytum 

 Ampelodesmos = Ampelodesmus (Seer/Ac's, o, band) 

 Amphicarpon = Amphicarpum (better, Amphicarpus from 



Kayo's, o, fruit) 



Acrospeira = Acrospira (o-ireipa, 17, knot, coil) 



Amorpha = Amorphe (p,op<f>r), 77, form) 



Arachnion = Arachnium (apdxviav, TO, spider's web) 



Apios^Apius (ora-ios, i/, pear, pear-tree) 



Aplopappus = Haplopappus (aTrAcos, simple) 



Arctostaphylos = Arctostaphylus (better, Arctostaphyle from 



ora^vAr/, 17, bunch of grapes) 



Astrebla = Astreble (a-rpeftXr], y, roller, o-r/oe^Xos, 17, ov, twisted) 

 Batodendron = Batodendrum (SeVSpov, TO, tree); Linodendrum, 



Phorodendrum, Rhododendrum, Toxicodendrum 

 Blepharoneuron = Blepharoneurum (vevpov, TO, fibre, nerve) 

 Brachychaeta = Brachychaete (x at/T ?7, ^, hair) 

 Callirhoe = Callirrhoe; Glycyrrhiza, Coralliorrhiza, etc. 

 Chaetochloa = Chaetochloe (x^, ^, grass) ; Echinochloe, Erio- 



chloe, Helochloe, Leptochloe, Scolochloe 

 Chamaecladon = Chamaecladus (KAaSos, o, shoot) 

 Chamaenerion = Chamaenerium (vypiov, TO, oleander) 

 Chamaerhodos = Chamaerhodus (better Chamaerhodum, pt'Sov, 



TO, rose) 



Chionyphe Chionohyphe (y^-q, 17, web) 

 Cheiranthes^Chiranthus (x>, V, hand); Chiromyces 

 Coilomyces = Coelomyces (/coiXos, hollow) 



. Critica Botanica, 129. 1737. 

 Dall, W. H. Nomenclature in Zoology and Botany, 55. 1877. 

 Kuntze, Otto. Revisio Generum Plantarum, 3:354. 1893. 

 Miller, Walter. Scientific Names of Latin and Greek Derivation. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Set., 1:127. 1897. 



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