The Names of Plants

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Cambridge University Press, Mar 6, 2008 - Science - 426 pages
The Names of Plants is an invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known and named. It documents the problems associated with an ever-increasing number of common names of plants, and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of International Codes for both botanical and horticultural nomenclature. It also outlines the rules to be followed when plant breeders name a new species or cultivar. The second section comprises a glossary of generic and specific plant names, and components of these, from which the reader may interpret the existing names of plants and construct new names. With explanations of the International Codes for both Botanical Nomenclature (2000) and Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (1995), this edition contains a greatly expanded glossary, which includes the Greek, Latin, or other source of each plant name.
 

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Page 26 - States became a member of the International Union for the Pro-tection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
Page 15 - Botanical nomenclature is independent of zoological nomenclature. The Code applies equally to taxonomic groups of plants whether or not they were originally assigned to the plant kingdom." The statement "in the sense . . ." should be placed under the article dealing with homonyms. DR. FAEGRI thought that the proposal should be reworded to deal with names, not with taxonomic groups of plants.
Page 15 - The nomenclature of a taxonomic group is based upon priority of publication. 4. Each taxonomic group with a particular circumscription, position and rank can bear only correct name, the earliest that is in accordance with the rules, except in specified cases.
Page 15 - Publication is effected, under this Code, only by distribution of printed matter (through sale, exchange, or gift) to the general public or at least to botanical institutions with libraries accessible to botanists generally.
Page 17 - These names may be taken from any source whatever and may even be composed in an absolutely arbitrary manner, as Rosa, Convolvulus, Liquidambar, Impatiens, and Manihot.
Page 15 - Art. 18. The application of names of taxonomic groups is determined by means of nomenclatural types. A nomenclatural type is that constituent, element of a group to which the name of the group is permanently attached, whether as an accepted name or as a synonym. The name of a group must be changed if the type of that name is excluded (see Art. 66). The type of the name of an order...
Page viii - ... the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.
Page 5 - ... vast vocabularly of names, many of which signify that which is false, and most of which mean nothing at all." ' Cornhill Magazine' of July 1866, who says apropos of plantnames :— " Science cannot, at present, afford to throw hard words at provincialisms. Too often, in her nomenclature, has she failed to interpret Nature; too often given us only the skeleton leaf instead of the flower.
Page 1 - ... often quite worthless renderings of scientific names, not such as are used by the people.1 ' Four-leaved Polycarp ' and ' Opposite Chrysosplene,' 2 as English equivalents for Polt/c.arpon lefraphyllum and Chrysosplenium oppositi/olium may be taken as examples of the class of name to which we refer. We have also purposely excluded a few names which, though graphic in their construction and meaning, interesting from their antiquity, and even yet in use in certain counties, are scarcely suited for...
Page 13 - They originate in man\ ways and their usage is often deeply rooted. Various segments of the common name-using public often use different names for the same species or the same name for different species. A common name may not coincide exactly with the Latin name of a biological species.

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