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The b t; Fs 
. .., 6h as adopted by the Paris Botanical Congress in 1867 
ee, plicit, and may here be reproduced, as set forth in Articl 
aws of Botanical Nomenclature : ’— a 
Hybrids whose origi 
: rigin has been experi 
generic name, t oe perimentally demonstrated are desi 
from which ae ges added a combination of the specific names of sake ‘i 4 Ae 
Bs Gxt with the ota the name of the species that has supplied the pollen tee: : 
next, with a hyphen bet a or 9, and that of the species that has supplied the ovulum aati 
ene ferti ween (Amaryllis vittato-regine, for the A lli : . 
as : ettilised by 4. vittata) > maryllis proceeding from 
_ flybrids of d ee ; P 
ce ee aE ie dis 
; : an : : ; 2 
name (X Salix capreolata, ee er, and by the sign x being prefixed to the generic 
This 
custom. The Regi Hg rule, but only a confirmation, as it were, of an old 
which may be explai aie has apparently arisen through a misconception 
the custom is to a. Seen expressing the parentage of any hybrid 
X,and lastly the n e the name of the seed parent first, followed by the sign 
X Spicerianum.” nae oars pollen parent, Thus—“ Cypripedium venustum 
venustum a se is only an abbreviation of the phrase ‘Cypripedium 
ii, Or, more corr i: the polien of C. Spicerianum.” But in Latinising 
from the tlie ee = speaking, in forming a compound name for the hybrid 
of the ey sa: es of its parents, the order must be reversed, and the name 
venustum,” ae ane placed first. Thus—* Cypripedium xX Spiceriano- 
ee. Fansition of the abbreviated English phrase ‘“ C. venustum 
is easy, if the rul ein the Latinised name “C, x venusto-Spicerianum ” 
OF Nbiien ; e ignored, though it is not correct. 
RP aGacnaca - ature Committee of the Royal Horticultural Soci 
? 4 a alia, {hate 
ety 
Hybrids b : 
s between species raised artificially should be named in Latin, with the addition 
of the wo 
r : 
Be. "ts gana ee or the sign of hybridity, X- 
ween varieties raised artificially should receive suitable vernacular names. 
There j 
€ is also a general recommendation that— 
anguage and usage, and to 
Nam < 
es sh F : 
ould be written so as to accord with botanical 1 
tional Botanical 
Conform wi 
th the ] : 
gress at Paris sx ape nomenclature as adopted at the Interna 
ould appear to be left open, but 
rdance with the botanical rule. 
ded for, unless indeed they 
ses one parent is a 
it ae question of compound names W 
ae at if given they should be in acco 
come ag hybrids are apparently not provi 
Species th Hybrids between varieties.” In many ca 
The ep in some both are of hybrid origin. 
followin = e subject apparently needs revision an 
| se ror rules seem to us all that are necessary -“~ 
is desirable that plants of hybrid origin should be distinguished 
d simplification, and the 
