The Rewording of Article 59 in the 1961 Code Author(S): F

The Rewording of Article 59 in the 1961 Code Author(s): F. C. Deighton Source: Taxon, Vol. 12, No. 4 (May, 1963), pp. 169-170 Published by: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1216186 . Accessed: 27/03/2014 10:12

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This content downloaded from 212.238.120.211 on Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:12:58 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions NEWS AND NOTES HAROLD LINDBERG matics will be held at the Missouri Botanical 1871 - 1963 Garden on Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19. The of the this We regret to annouce the death on 13 subject Symposium March 1963 of the Finnish taxonomist Dr year will be "Pollination Relationships and A botanist and a will HARALD LINDBERG, of the Botanical Systematics." zoologist formerly serve as co-chairmen, and five invited Museum, University of Helsinki. papers will be given on different aspects of the pro- B.K. SCHISCHKIN blem as it relates to botanical and zoological The is aided a 1886 - 1963 systematics. Symposium by grant from the National Science Foundation. We annouce with deep regret the death, on 21 March 1963 of our council-member PLASTICINE AS AN AID IN EXAMINING Dr B.K. SCHSCHKIN,head of the Department SURFACE CHARACTERS OF SEEDS of and Plant of the Systematics Geography The surface characters of certain of Botanical Institute of the of Scien- types Academy seeds often are difficult to study, particularly ces of the U.S.S.R. We hope to publish an notice on Dr Schischkin in a very small, hard and slick seeds, or globose obituary coming ones that out of the field of the dis- number of Taxon. ,,jump" secting microscope upon being touched with a needle. In studies of the and MARY SOPER POPE MEDAL hilum, raphe, micropyle, such an experience can become The Mary Soper Pope Medal, given since very frustrating. 1947 to outstanding botanists by the Cran- The use of plasticine, however, is a simple brook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, technique found to be extremely useful in Mich. was awarded to Dr. Edmund H. seed examination. Plasticine, an amorphous Fulling, honorary curator of The New York substance widely used in elementary schools Botanical Garden on 30 December 1962. for modeling purposes, is obtainable in several Founder and editor of various botany pu- colors at nearly every stationers and variety blications, Dr. Fulling is best known for his store that sells school supplies in the United continuing work as editor of "The Botanical States. Plasticine varies in hardness depending Review," a quarterly interpreting botanical upon the air temperature - harder in cold progress and published by The New York weather and softer in warm; but this presents Botanical Garden since 1935. little difficulty to the user. Simply press a A member of The New York Botanical staff flat pancake of plasticine into a shallow since 1926, Dr. Fulling graduated from Syra- round metal box cover, and place the seeds cuse University's College of Forestry that on the sticky surface for study. Under normal year and received his doctor's degree from conditions, plasticine does not adhere to the Columbia University in 1935. He is the seeds. Users will find this simple technique author of dozens of books, articles and transla- a practical solution to difficulties usually tions and has been the editor of "The Ame- associated with the examination of seeds of rican Journal of Botany" and of "Economic Brassica, Linum, and many legumes and other which he founded in 1947. small seeds. Botany," PAULRUSSEL (Beltsville, Md.)

LINNAEUS MEDAL THE REWORDING OF ARTICLE 59 The Linnaeus Medal was awarded to Dr IN THE 1961 CODE Orro DEGENER, Collaboratorin Hawaiian Bo- In connexion with The New York Botanical Garden the my proposal (Taxon tany, by 11(8): 254. 1962), Dr. D. B. O. Savile (Ottawa) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The has that the word award was in suggested "chlamydospore" made recognition of the work in reference to the would be and donations which and Ustilaginales Degener produced better omitted, because of the established use initiated in favour of the NaturhistoriskaRiks- of for "a thick-walled, non- museum, Stockholm. "chlamydospore" deciduous, intercalary or terminal asexual MISSOURI SYMPOSIUM ON spore made by the rounding up of a cell or SYSTEMATICS cells" (Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi, ed. 5, 1961). I am in complete agree- The Tenth Annual Symposium on Syste- ment. The "chlamydospores"in Ustilaginales 169

This content downloaded from 212.238.120.211 on Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:12:58 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions being, in fact, the "spores giving rise to -mat- (z.B. Alisma, Phyteuma) liingst getan basidia", special mention of them is super- hat, obwohl auch diese beiden Namen bei fluous. The sentence can be further shortened Linn6 Feminina sind. with advantage by the omission of certain Entsprechend sollte auch die moderne other superfluous words, and my proposed Wortzusammensetzung Podonosma Boiss. als rewording should therefore read: Neutrum behandelt werden. "The perfect state is that which is cha- S. RAUSCHERT (Halle/Saale) racterized by the presence of asci in the Asco- mycetes, spores giving rise to basidia in the NOMINA CONSERVANDAN PROPOSITA Uredinales and in the Ustilaginales, or basidia or organs which bear basidia in the other (99) Proposal to conserve the generic name orders of the Basidiomycetes" (proposal no. 4868 Berchemia DC. against the nomenclatu- 26 submitted to the Xth International Bota. ral synonym Oenoplia Michx. ex Hedwig. f. nical Congress). (Rhamnaceae). F. C. DEIGHTON(C.M.I., Kew) Berchemia [Necker ex] A. P. DC. Prodr. 2: 22. 1825 nom. cons. prop. EMPFEHLUNG 75 A Type species: Rhamnus volubilis L. f. (= Berchemia scandens (Hill) K. Koch). Gemiiss Empfehlung 75A sollen alle Namen, DeCandolle stated that he was die sind resurrecting moderne Wortzusammensetzungen Necker's (now illegitimate) uninomial on the und auf -osma moderne (die Transkription grounds that it was prior and also that the des femininen Wortes griechischen osme) "true" Oenoplia (referring to Ziziphus Oeno- oder andere Feminina als enden, Feminina plia (L.) Mill.) was not congeneric. Virtually behandelt werden. Die unklare Fassung der all authors have adopted the name. A few of im Paris Code entsprechenden Empfehlung them are Torrey & Gray, Fl. No. Amer. 1: sowie die Nichtbeachtung der Etymologie der 260. 1838; Endlicher, Gen. n. 5710. 1840; dazu dass auf Namen hat gefiihrt, einige Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beech. Voy. t. 37. -osma endende die von der Namen, Empfeh- 1841; Walpers, Ann. 1: 966. 1849; Miquel, lung 75A nicht betroffen werden, da sie keine Fl. Ind. Bat. 11: 644. 1855; Bentham, Fl. mit dem Zusammensetzungen griechischen Hongkon. 67. 1861; Bentham & Hooker f. Femininum osme (Geruch) sind, jetzt vielfach Gen. P1. 1: 377. 1862; Weberbauer, Natiirl. behandelt werden. inkorrekt als Feminina Planzenf. 3 s: 405. 1895; Suessenguth, op. cit. Hierffir drei Beispiele. 20d: 141. 1953. Der Name der OrchideengattungTrichosma Michx. ex f. Gen. 1: Lindl. ist aus reri; (drie) und dem griechi- Oenoplea Hedwig. P1. nom. schen Neutron Xco,3ia(Wall, Mole, schmale 151. 1806. refic. prop. Landzunge) zusammengesetzt, mit Bezug auf Type species: Rhamnus volubilis L. f. (= das dreilappige Labellum. Dieser Gattungs- Berchemia scandens (Hill) K. Koch). name sollte das klassische Geschlecht seines The independently proposed genus Oeno- Endwortes behalten und als Neutrum behan. plia (Pers.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 5: 332. delt werden. 1819 has the same basis. No author has taken Ein weiteres Beispiel ist der Name Onosma up either of these names. L. Es ist zwar nicht ausgeschlossen, dass in Conservation is necessary to stabilize the seiner Wortmitte dieselbe Wurzel od- enthalten name is use for nearly a century and a half. ist, die auch dem Wort osme zugrundeliegt Resurrectionof Oenoplea would require near- (vgl. auch lat. odor und franz. odeur). Das ly two dozen new combinations, as well as diirfte heute etymologisch kaum noch zu upset the well-established name. sein. Sicher ist dass Onosma keine kliiren aber, Proposed by: Marshall C. Johnston (Austin, Zusammensetzung mit dem griechischen Fe- Texas). mininum osme ist, da das Wort im klassischen Griechisch und Latein stets als Neutrum der (100) Proposal for conservation of the 3. Deklination mit dem Suffix (100) Proposal gene- griechischen ric name SARGENTIA S. Wats. (1890, Rutaceae) -mat- erscheint. Obwohl Linne den Namen over the homonym of Wendland et Drude Onosma als man homonym WYendland Femininum einfiihrte, sollte (1887, Palmae). ihm sein klassisches Geschlecht, das Neutrum, wieder zukommen lassen, wie man das bei Sargentia S. Wats., Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: anderen Namen mit dem Neutrum-Suffix 144. 1890. nom. cons. prop.

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