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christened simply Rose, and is baptized as Rose, yet her full legal 
name is Rose Gardner, by virtue of her relationship in the Gard¬ 
ner household. When she is married, it is again simply as Rose, 
but her full legal name now becomes, we will say Rose Goldsmith: 
she has changed the household to which the law accredits her. A 
like change in name will take place each time she remarries. 
This is very similar to what happens in the case of plants. 
Some responsible person gives the name of Rosens to a plant, and 
places it in the Uromyces household. Its full legal name is now 
Uromyces roseus . But after a time someone discovers that its 
affinities are more properly with the household of Pnccinia, and 
publishes the fact. The name now becomes Puccinia rosea ; and 
it might thus be changed a number of times. We see that the 
Christian name on the one hand, and the specific name on the 
other, receive, as appellations, almost identical treatment, and that 
the relation which the Christian name holds to the surname is in 
all essentials the same which the specific name holds to the name 
of the genus. The treatment of personal names is in some re¬ 
spects more satisfactory than accorded plant names, in that the 
descriptive use is wholly subordinated to the appellative use, and 
the relationship of the two parts of the name is better appreciated. 
It would seem that when mycologists generally accept the idea 
that the name of a plant applies to the whole plant in all its 
stages, irrespective of the manner in which the name became estab¬ 
lished or legalized, that after it becomes subject to the laws of 
nomenclature it is simply appellative, and that the two parts of 
the name have quite different values, the way will be clear for the 
uniform operation of priority in the case of fungi with many fruit 
forms as well as in higher and less obviously complicated plants. 
