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Terms are invalid unless properly transliterated; retroactively, all innproper 

 transliterations are to be corrected. 



"Nomina generica Graeca Latinis Uteris pingenda sunt." Critica 

 Botanica 127. 



"The strict Latin orthography can not be too rigorously in- 

 sisted upon; consistency will in no other way be attainable." 

 ]\Iiller, Scientific Names 127. 



The following table shows the proper transliteration of Greek 

 vowels, diphthongs, and consonants into Latin. For the sake 

 of uniformity, alternative transliterations (such as a for -q final, 

 e for £t), are avoided. 



y8 = b p^i- 



y=g T=t 



= n before k, <^ = ph 

 ^ = d [y, X X = ch 

 C = z "A = ps 



^ = th yK = nc 



K — c yx = "ch 



A-1 7y = ng 



/i = m p = rh, p/3 ^ rrh 



v = n ' = h 



=m in final -ov 



TT = p 



tr, ? = s 



Medial ' (/;) arising from word-formation is to be transliterated, 

 thus preventing elision of a preceding vowel, unless its presence 

 is already shown by aspirating the preceding consonant, as in 

 €<i>riixtpa. Latin usage is variable in this particular, since words 

 already compounded in Greek, in which the aspirate was not 

 visible, were transliterated into Latin as they stood, while in 

 other words in which the presence of the aspirate was felt or 

 known, the latter was transliterated. In scientific words it is 

 important that the rough breathing be rendered by h, not only 

 in order that the terms of a compound may be readily recog- 



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