which is correct?

[Thomas Lammers]

At 08:59 PM 10/3/00 +0000, you wrote:

>     Since there are no formal rules in the Code for taxa at this level,
>there is no single "correct" spelling.

As a botanist, it seems really odd to not have a Code cover the upper ranks
of the hierarchy.  You folks ought to give some thought to fixing that.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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