1897 | BRIEFER ARTICLES Tog 
é. g., one should write Rilingia for the Rulingia used by the English and 
introduced with us. 
5. Generic names, which have been relegated to synonymy, had better not 
again be applied in an altered sense to designate new genera or even sec- 
tions, etc. 
The choice of specific names shall be determined by priority unless 
serious objections to its application can be raised by monographers. If a 
species has been transferred to another genus, it must even there bear the 
oldest specific name. 
7. The author who first named a species, even if it was under another 
genus, should always be shown, and accordingly his name is to be placed in 
parenthesis before that of the author who made the transference to the new 
genus; thus, Pw/satilla pratensis (L.) Mill., on account of Anemone pratensis 
L. If an author has himself placed his species in another genus we drop 
the parenthesis.3 
8. So far as the manner of writing specific names is concerned, the method 
followed by Linnaeus has been introduced in the Botanical Garden and 
monly names of still current or at least formerly recognized genera), ¢. g., 
Ficus indica, Circea lutetiana, Brassica Napus, Solanum Dulcamara, Lythrum 
Hyssopifolia, Isachne Biittneri, Sabicea Henningsiana. 
g- If proper names are used in the formation of generic and specific 
names, we add in case of words ending in a vowel or in 7, only a (for the genus) 
or z(for the species), thus Glazioua (from Glaziou), Bureaua (from Bureau), 
Schiitzea (from Schiitze), Kernera (from Kerner), and Glazioui, Bureaui, 
Schiitzei, Kerneri. In case the name ends in a, we change this vowel for the 
sake of euphony to ae, thus from Colla comes Collaea. In all other cases 7a, 
or 22 is appended to the names, thus Schiitzia (from Schiitz), Schiitzii, etc. 
This holds also of names ending in ws, thus Magnusia, Magnusii (not Magni), 
Hieronymusia, Hieronymusii (not Hieronymi). The adjectival forms of 
iana, Magnusiana. A distinction in the application of the genitive and adjec- 
tival forms is not at the present time practicable. 
10. In the formation of compound Latin and Greek nouns or adjectives the 
vowel between the stems is a connecting vowel, being in Latin z, in Greek o. 
Thus, one should write menthifolia, not menthefolia. (Here itis not the geni- 
tive of the former stem which enters into combination. ) 
-. Werecommend the avoidance of such combinations of names as involve 
Spee e. g., Linaria Linaria or Elvasia elvasioides. Similarly it is per- 
3The authors engaged in continuing works in which the parenthesis is not used 
do not regard themselves bound by this rule. 
