By David Gledhill
This e-book records the historic difficulties linked to an ever-increasing variety of commonly-named vegetation and the solution of those difficulties during the creation of overseas Codes for either botanical and horticultural nomenclature. the second one a part of the publication contains an alphabetical thesaurus of frequent and particular plant names and their parts, from which the reader may well interpret the prevailing names of crops and build new names. The 3rd variation comprises reasons of the overseas Codes for either Botanical Nomenclature (2000) and Nomenclature for Cultivated crops (1995). The accelerated word list comprises many extra commemorative names. earlier version Hb (1989): 0-521-36668-2 past variation Pb (1989): 0-521-36675-5
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In 1930, the matter of determining the priority of specific epithets was the main point at issue. The practice of British botanists had been to regard that epithet which was first published after the plant had been allocated to its correct genus as the correct name. This has been called the Kew Rule, but it was defeated in favour of the rule that now gives priority to the epithet that was the first to be published from the starting date of [26] May 1st, 1753. g. Bauhin’s Alsine media, Ammi majus, Anagyris foetida and Galium rubrum and Dodoens’ Angelica sylvestris are examples of binomials nevertheless credited to Linnaeus).
This implies the existence of a typical subspecies, the autonym for which is V. spicata L. subsp. spicata. It will be seen from the citation of Warburg’s new combination that the disappearance of a former Linnaean species can be explained. Retention of the epithet ‘hybrida’, and the indication of Linnaeus being its author (in parentheses) shows the benefit of this system in constructing names with historic meanings. Hybrids Hybrids are particularly important as cultivated plants but are also a feature of many plant groups in the wild, especially woody perennials such as willows.
As a general guide, names ending in -us are masculine unless they are trees (such as Fagus, Pinus, Quercus, Sorbus which are treated as feminine), names ending in -a are feminine and names ending in -um are neuter; names ending in -on are masculine unless they can also take -um, when they are neuter, or the ending is -dendron when they are also neuter (Rhododendron or Rhododendrum); names ending in -ma (as in terminations such as -osma) are neuter; names ending in -is are mostly feminine or masculine treated as feminine (Orchis) and those ending in -e are neuter; other feminine endings are -ago, -odes, -oides, -ix and -es.