This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... to describe it briefly, and as I had named it he and Mr. Coville, head of the botanical division, joined in asking me to characterize it. I then wrote the paragraph of his report placed in quotation marks and credited to me. Under the new rules of nomenclature the law of priority, while proper to be followed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... to describe it briefly, and as I had named it he and Mr. Coville, head of the botanical division, joined in asking me to characterize it. I then wrote the paragraph of his report placed in quotation marks and credited to me. Under the new rules of nomenclature the law of priority, while proper to be followed in all groups, other things equal, does not apply to families that have not received suitable names. In fixing on these new names in 1903, we supposed that they would be first published in the Supplement to the Century Dietionary, but that did not appear till January, 1910, and most of the names had then been published in other works. When I reached this one in its alphabetical order I denned it, and my definition stands in its proper place in the columns of that work. It is as follows: Menthacese (men-tha'c-e), n. pi. NL. (Ward, 1905), Mentha+-acee. A great family of dicotyledonous sympetalous plants of the order Polemonialcs, the mint family, typified by the genus Mentha, the mint genus. It is characterized primarily by a labiate corolla, whence it was called Labiaia by Bernard Jussieu in laying out the garden of the Trianon--a name which has been generally adopted and is still widely used, although not based on that of any genus of the family. See Labiate in the Dictionary proper. Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Volume IX.--The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam with an Introductory Account of the Physical Features and Natural History of the Island, of the Character and History of its People, and of their Agriculture. By William Edwin Safford. Washington. Government Printing Office, 1905, p. 324; The Century Dictionary Supplement. Prepared under the...
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