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are let at once on historio ground, and thereby at a moment 

 some tale is told elucidating the object before us, but as the 

 original ñame first published can iii the progress of classifica- 

 tion, not always be raaintained, it is desirable to append not 

 interject in parenthesis or in some other -way the ñame of the 

 earliest author provided that he used the same specifie ñame, 

 no genus is admissible which has uot by specifie ñame or ña- 

 mes been fidemissed, unless the specifie designations be self- 

 understood, and the author therefore may content himself to 

 chango merely the ñame of a genus because the genus nanae 

 was preoccupied, yet he can claim the authorship for every 

 species under the ne^v genus-name. Should a monographer af 

 ter-^-ards elabórate a new, every oue of the species he can not 

 take possession of any which "^ere clearly known at the date of 

 the trauslocation; and he can therefore att^ch his owu ñame 

 only to the siibsequent species, otherwise we would get "the 

 shadoTv for the substance." It is au immeuse help if the year of 

 publieation of a new or transfered species is given with the ña- 

 me as agaiu thereby we can form au idea from historie data 

 about attributes of the species, for instance often about its na- 

 tivity, its natural order, its uses, its cultural requirements and 

 other concern s. 



It should besides be mentioned that in a "systema natural 

 totius mundi" it is uudesirable that the identieal ñame for a 

 genus or order be used, but it is not needful to adapt an enti- 

 rely new ñame for the latest of the two, as it would be quite 

 sufficient to change slightly the endiug of the word in the latter 

 case, by merely putting another letter in the last syllable and 

 thenthe rightsof the original author should be sustained, not- 

 withstandiug the slight alteration of the word. It may perhaps 

 be f urther remarked that]wheu several species or genera promul 

 gated simultaneously by any author, not neccessarily any of his 

 ñames must be retained if a newer ñame is already formed sub. 

 sequently and independently for the species or the genus in its 

 true width. If the ñame is to be one of those simultaneously ren- 



