My apologies every one I made a bit of a mess of that! What I should have said was that Katharine for Katharine Saunders was spelt originally with a second 'A' I certainly did not mean to question the botanical ending of the name which I misspelt in my own email , once again my apologies Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Zonneveld, B.J.M. (Ben) Sent: 29 June 2010 10:12 To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [pbs] katherinae is correct If a plant is named after a person the first step is to make it latin so Katherine becomes katherina. The next step is to bring it to the second declination (?) so katherinae is the correct form. Now the following question arises: published is kathErinae. However the lady is named KathArine?? Ben J.M.Zonneveld Nationaal Herbarium Nederland POBox 9514 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands telf 071 5274738 E-mail: Zonneveld@NHN.Leidenuniv.nl