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

 otherwise exactly alike. ^ 



The following- list wnll serve to illustrate the more frequent 

 errors in transliteration, and their correction. 



Adenocaulon = Adenocaulum (or, much better, Adenocaulus, 



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

 Agropyron = Agropyrum (Trupos, 6, wheat) 

 Aerophyton = Aerophytum (<^urov, to, plant); Petrophytum 

 - Ampelodesmos = Ampelodesmus {Se(T/xc<s, o, band) 

 Amphicarpon = Amphicarpum (better, Amphicarpus from 



KapTTcs, o, fruit) 

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

 Amorpha = Amorphe (fioptpi], ■>;, form) 

 Arachnion = Arachnium (apdxi^Lov, to, spider's web) 

 Apios =^ Apius (ttTTios, 17, pear, pear-tree) 

 Aplopappus — Haplopappus (aTrXt'os, simple) 

 Arctostaphylos = Arctostaphylus (better, Arctostaphyle from 



o-Ta</)vAr;, rj, bunch of grapes) 

 Astrebla = Astreble (o-Tpe'^AT/, 17, roller, crrpe/3Ao's, r/, oV, twisted) 

 Batodendron = Batodendrum (SeVSpoi/, t6, tree); Linodendrum, 



Phorodendrum, Rhododendrum, Toxicodendrum 

 Blepharoneuron = Blepharofieurum (veSpov, to, fibre, nerve) 

 Brachychaeta = Brachychaete (x'^^'^V> V> hair) 

 Cal.irhoe = Callirrhoe; Glycyrrhiza, Coralliorrhiza, etc. 

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



chloe, Helochloe, Leptochloe, Scolochloe 

 Chamaecladon = Chamaecladus (kAoSos, o, shoot) 

 Chamaenerion ~ Chamaenerium (vT^piov, t6, oleander) 

 Chamaerhodos = Chamaerhodus (better Chamaerhodum, ptSov, 



to, rose) 

 Chionyphe==Chionohyphe (v^t/, ^, web) 

 Cheiranthes = Chiranthus (x^'p. Vy hand) ; Chiromyces 

 Coilomyces = Coelomyces (koiAos, hollow) 



^Linne. 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. 

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



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