_ While Kunze’s amendment is a decided improvement, ! 
224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ance 
une section ou autre division qui, d’aprés son nom ou ses espéces, était le 
type ou l’origine du groupe, le nom est réservé pour cette partie, Si 
n’existe pas de section ou subdivision pareille, mais qu'une des fractions 
détachées soit beaucoup plus nombreuse en espéces que les autres, c'est delle 
que le nom doit étre réservé. ae 
This rule is so indefinite, and requires so much in the way of 
’ personal interpretation and judgment, that it has not produced — : 
uniform results in the hands of those who have sincerely 
attempted to use it as a guide. Kunze, recognizing the 
impossibility of securing uniformity under this rule, proposed : 
a modification of it which should make it more definite. As 10 
particular period in the history of a genus is designated to be : 
taken as a basis for applying the Paris code rule, Kunze very — 
aptly remarks that it leaves us “‘tiber die hochst wichtige Frage 
im Unklaren.” He emended this article so that it should require 
the generic name to be applied to the majority of the species 
included in the genus at the time of its valid establishment. 
This has been designated the ‘species majority” 
_ incapable of giving us stability and uniformity in the app! 
for the cases ‘which 
but two species were originally referre 
which may be equally entitled to retai 
genus is divided. The fatal difficulty, however, 
selection of the species which are to be considered 39 
to the genus must be based upon the reviser’s COnCef ce 
_ genus, or upon the conception of the author that he | eo 
to follow, and it is quite unnecessary to call ate ae i 
_ great diversity of generic concepts which has obtaineds | 
_ obtains, among botanists. a the re 
_ The Rochester rules make no direct provision «on 
_ ment of genera, but refer all questions not pat - 
for to the Paris code. | oe 
___. Theso-called “residue metho 
a generally accepted by adherents to the 
ao : “Konze, O,, Rey. Gen. Pl. 1: xcit. 1891. 
a the name whe 
js that 
d” is the one whic has bee! 
Rochester | 
