Jim, I have been wondering where you were in all of this Latin discussion since I know you are a Latin scholar. I am finding out too that when searching for earlier literature on plants (or anything that was described), the publications tend to be simple, and often times just a paragraph or two of description without the bells and whistles that are required these days. Most of the earlier ones I have seen were published in complete Latin. I went through Baker's description of Scilla (Ledebouria) pauciflora recently and Latin was the choice of words. Nhu On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jim McKenney <jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com>wrote: > > Weeks ago I raised questions about the reason for the revival of the name > Gladiolus murielae. John Grimshaw responded with " It's a simple issue of > the rules of taxonomy: priority is priority, and Goldblatt has judged > Kelway's publication of G. murielae to be valid." >