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language, at least when they are not derived from the scientific Latin 
name by means of some slight modification. (DC.) 
It is desirable to continue the use of Latin for scientific descriptions, and still more 
for names. These, like proper names of persons, should be available in all languages. 
The public adopts them rapidly as a matter of habit, even when they are grotesque. 
No one objects to such names as Fuchsia, Rhododendron, etc., now common to all coun- 
tries. For much stronger reasons, it is desirable to proscribe the fabrication of so- 
called “ common names.” The public to whom they are addressed finds no advantage 
in them, for they are new to it, not to be found in any dictionary, and the learner must 
also know the Latin name of which the new term is a synonym. To comprehend how 
confusing a multiplicity of “ common” names would be, it is only necessary to suggest, 
for instance, the condition of the Post Office department, if each village had an abso- 
lutely different name in each language. (DC.) 
The manufacturers of new “common” names occasionally make some amusing 
slips, as in the case of a recent attempt in England, when for several groups of animals 
which already possess well known and characteristic names in the vernacular, new 
“common names” were proposed. 
Of the Latinization of names. 
§LXXXIV. Greek names are Latinized by substituting for the Greek 
letters their Latin equivalents according to the following table. (Herrin., 
Th., B. A., etc.) 
a - 
— a; 
(/%■«) 
P 
= b; 
(fipayjw';) 
r 
= 9; 
(yXcofftra) 
d 
— d; 
(dap dq) 
c 
— e; 
('uaXioq') 
r 
= 2; 
(ZCupov) 
h 
= e ; 
(jczipyvrP) 
y final 
— a; 
(jzsipyjvrf) 
0 
— th; 
(zrjhuq) 
t 
— i; 
(ftaXioq) 
A 
= 0 ; 
ITT Ttoxpyjvy'^ 
X 
= 1; 
(tpuXXig) 
y 
— m; 
(pJXag) 
V 
— n; 
(jzstpyjvrf) 
£ 
— ■ ■ tXj y 
(cevoc) 
O, O) 
— 0 ; 
(tpopoz) 
71 
— p; 
( TTorap/) g) 
P 
— r ; 
(7 TT£/> 0 >) 
Beta,. 
B rachium. 
G lossa. 
D ipsas. 
Hyalea , not Hyalnea. 
Zizyphus , Zizyphimis. 
Pi rena , not Pirina. 
Pirena , not Pirene. 
Tethys; (0£ziq) Thetis. 
Balia , not Balea. 
Hippoorena , not Hippochrenes. 
Phyllis. 
M elas. 
Pirena. 
ILenus, "Kenophora. 
Ph o rus ; ( 7 zcb [i a ) Portia. 
P otamus. 
Ptevum. 
