INTERNATIONAL RULES FOR BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE 7 
Article 26, be transcribed. Examples: Scandia Pecten-Veneris 
(= Scandix Pecten 2); Veronica Anagallis-aquatica (= Veronica 
Anagallis 7). 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
VIII. The specific name should, in general, give some indica- 
tion of the appearance, the characters, the origin, the history, or 
the properties of the species. If taken from the name of a person, 
it usually recalls the name of the one who discovered or described 
it, or was in some way concerned with it. 
. Names of men and women, and also names of countries 
and localities used as specific names, may be substantives in the 
genitive (Clusii, sahare), or adjectives (Clusianus, dahuricus). It 
will be well, in the future, to avoid the use of the genitive and the 
adjectival form of the same name to designate two different species 
of the same genus [for example, Lysimachia Hemsleyana Maxim 
(1891) and L. Hemsleyi Franch. (1895)]}. 
X. Specific names begin with a small letter, except those which 
are taken from names of persons (substantives or adjectives), or 
those which are old generic names (substantives or adjectives). 
Exam : Ficus indica, Circea lutetiana, Brassica Napus, 
Lythrum Hyssopifolia, Aster novibelgii, Malva Tournefortiana, Phy- 
teuma Hallert 
XL hen a specific name is taken from the name of aman, it 
is formed in the following way :— 
a) When the name ends in a vowel, the letter i is added (thus 
Bureau), except when the 
m n 
(6) When the name ends in a consonant, the letters di are added 
(thus, Magnusit from Magnus, Ramondit_ from amond), except 
when the word ends in er, when added (example, Kernert from 
Kerner). : 
c) Syllables which are not modified by these endings retaim 
igi ing, even in the case of the consonants k and w, 
or groupings of vowels which are not used in classic Latin. Letters 
foreign to the Latin of botanists should be transcribed, and diacritic 
signs suppressed. The German i, 6, i become ae, oe, ue; 
French é, é, 6 become, in general, e. 
(d) When specific names taken from the name of a person have 
an adjectival form a similar plan is adopted (Geranium Hobertianum, 
Carex Hallerana, Ranunculus Boreawanus, &C.). 
e same applies to the names of women. These are 
written in the feminine when they have a substantival form. 
Example: Cypripedium Hookere, Rosa Beatricis,. Scabiosa Olga, 
Omphalodes Lucilia. 
XIII. In the formation of specific names composed of two or 
several roots, and taken from Latin or Greek, the vowel placed be- 
tween the two roots becomes a connecting vowel—in Latin 7, in 
Greek 0; thus we write menthifolia, salviifolia, not menthefolia, 
salviafolia. When the second root begins with a vowel and euphony 
