Botanical Latin
Jane McGary (Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:03:20 PST)

Jim SHields noted,
At 06:42 AM 12/11/2008, you wrote:

The spelling of botanical names derived from Russian depends on
whether the names were transmitted via German speakers. Some of the
most active botanists attached to early Russian exploration were in
fact German in origin, and applied their own often unwieldy phonemic
spelling to Russian names.

Jane McGary
(B.A., Classics; M.A. Comparative Lit.)