Plant Names Scientific and Popular
INCLUDING IN THE CASE OF EACH PLANT
CORRECT BOTANICAL NAME IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REFORMED NOMENCLATURE, TOGETHER WITH BOTANICAL AND POPULAR SYNONYMS
Plant Names Scientific and Popular – Every plant is supposed to have a ”correct” botanical name, and -can have only one such. As a matter of fact, there are few plants that have not been over and over rechristened by scientific botanists, each one maintaining that his is its only really ‘ ‘correct’ ‘ designation. Out of the endless confusion there is at last emerging order and uniformity.
At the Botanical Congress held at Paris in 1867 the principle
-was definitely adopted that the scientific designation of a plant should be in every case the name first applied to it (with suitable definition and description 1. provided that name had not been precariously applied to another plant.
This rule has necessitated many changes in the current nomenclature. The names adopted in this book have been brought as far as possible into accordance with the reformed nomenclature.
In the case of our indigenous plants, the names given by Britton and Brown in their recently published “Flora of the Northern States and Canada, have been adopted with very few exceptions as conforming to the new rules.
