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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 
§ VII. Nomenclature comprehends two kinds of names; (1) terms 
which express the relative value of groups which are comprised each in 
another. (2) Particular names for each group of organisms known to 
exist, appellative words which are names and not definitions. 
On the Subordination and Designation of Groups belonging to 
the First Category of § VII. 
§ VIII. The following table indicates the two series. 
REGNUM VEGETABILE. 
REGNUM 
ANIMALE. 
iSubregnum. 
Classis. 
Subkingdom. 
Class. 
Classis. 
Class. 
Subclassis. 
Subclass. 
Subclassis. 
Superordo. 
Subclass. 
Superorder. 
Cohors. 
Cohort. 
Ordo. 
Order. 
Subcohors. 
Subcohort. 
Subordo. 
! Superfamilia. 
Suborder. • 
Superfamily. 
Ordo, familia. 
Order or Family. 
Familia. 
Family. 
Subordo, subfamilia. 
Suborder. 
Subfamilia. 
Subfamily. 
Tribus. 
Subtribus. 
Gen us. 
Tribe. 
Subtribe. 
Tribus. 
Tribe. 
Genus. 
Genus. 
Genus. 
Subgenus. 
Subgenus. 
Subgenus. 
Subgenus. 
Sectio. 
Section. 
Sectio. 
Section. 
Subsectio. 
Subsection. 
j Subsectio. 
Subsection. 
Species. 
Species. 
' Species. 
Species. 
Subspecies, Proles. 
Subspecies, Race. 
Subspecies. 
Subspecies. 
Varietas. 
Subvarietas. 
Vai iety. 
Subvariety. 
Variation. 
Subvariation. 
Varietas. 
Variety. 
Variatio. 
Subvariatio. 
Variatio. 
Variation. 
Planta. 
Plant. 
Animal. 
Individual. 
The above terms are more or less generally accepted ; the relative values being more 
fully and generally recognized in botany than in zoology. In the literature of the 
latter branch some of the terms above mentioned are rarely found, though by no means 
unnecessary for careful discrimination. The term tribe in zoology has been used with 
several different values. In this, as in other respects, the inchoate condition of zo- 
ological nomenclature as compared with that of botany is clearly apparent. 
§ IX. All individuals belong to a species, all species to a genus, all 
genera to a family, all families to an order or to a cohort, all orders or 
cohorts to a class. (DC., B. A.) In some species varieties or variations 
are recognized, and even more numerous modifications in some cultivated 
plants; botanical orders are often divided into tribes, and genera into 
sections. Intermediate groups are distinguished by the prefixes sub and 
