Thanks Jim. Gee! Hardly anybody remembers their 8th grade Latin or didn't have the doubtful luxury of that kind of torture. Worse, I suspect that some genera are regarded as belonging to the 4th declension, rather than the 1st or 2nd., but I don't know whether this is true or not. Maybe there's a priest around who can still understand what he reads, even if he anglicizes the pronunciation ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Haemanthus and Scadoxus Culture > Except when the specific epithet is in the genitive form, e.g. Barkera > (nom), barkerae (gen); as in Haemanthus barkerae, "Ms. Barker's > Haemanthus." > > If we used an adjective form, it mights be "Haemanthus barkerianus" for > instance (where are the pedants when we need one!?!) Might this mean "the > Heamanthus that looks like Ms. Barker"? > > Jim > > At 02:48 PM 6/28/2010 -0700, you wrote: > >>The specific epithet has to agree with the gender of the genus, so has >>nothing to do with the gender of anyone it commemorates. >> >> T