Thank you Cherry G.! I printed it and will save it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <CGeat25049@aol.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 7:25 PM Subject: [pbs] re personal nomenclature matter pbs vol 89 issue 40 > Nomenclature rules on gender as established by the international Botanical > congresses follows.. > I am still trying to interpret these rules, but these congresses are the > ones who set the rules. > > Division II > Rules and recommendations > Chapter VII: Orthography and gender of names > > > 60C.1. When personal names are given Latin terminations in order to form > specific and infraspecific epithets formation of those epithets is as > follows (but see Rec. 60C.2): > 1. If the personal name ends with a vowel or -er, substantival > epithets are formed by adding the genitive inflection appropriate to the > sex and > number of the person(s) honoured (e.g., scopoli-i for Scopoli (m), > fedtschenko-i for Fedtschenko (m), fedtschenko-ae for Fedtschenko (f), > glaziou-i > for Glaziou (m), lace-ae for Lace (f), gray-i for Gray (m), hooker-orum > for > the Hookers (m)), except when the name ends with -a, in which case > adding -e > (singular) or -rum (plural) is appropriate (e.g. triana-e for Triana (m), > pojarkova-e for Pojarkova (f), orlovskaja-e for Orlovskaja (f)). > 2. If the personal name ends with a consonant (except -er), > substantival epithets are formed by adding -i- (stem augmentation) plus > the genitive > inflection appropriate to the sex and number of the person(s) honoured > (e.g. lecard-ii for Lecard (m), wilson-iae for Wilson (f), verlot-iorum > for > the Verlot brothers, braun-iarum for the Braun sisters, mason-iorum for > Mason, father and daughter). > 3. If the personal name ends with a vowel, adjectival epithets are > formed by adding -an- plus the nominative singular inflection appropriate > to > the gender of the generic name (e.g. Cyperus heyne-anus for Heyne, Vanda > lindley-ana for Lindley, Aspidium bertero-anum for Bertero), except when > the > personal name ends with -a in which case -n- plus the appropriate > inflection is added (e.g. balansa-nus (m), balansa-na (f), and > balansa-num (n) for > Balansa). > 4. If the personal name ends with a consonant, adjectival epithets are > formed by adding -i- (stem augmentation) plus -an- (stem of adjectival > suffix) plus the nominative singular inflection appropriate to the gender > of > the generic name (e.g. Rosa webb-iana for Webb, Desmodium griffith-ianum > for Griffith, Verbena hassler-iana for Hassler). > Note 1. The hyphens in the above examples are used only to set off the > total appropriate termination > > I hope this helps straighten out the confusion on nomenclature rules > affrecting personal names! > Cherry G > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/