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THE International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature call for the diagnoses of new species and other groupings of plants to be given in Latin. In so far as the algæ are concerned this is to be regretted. From Latin diagnoses it is often impossible to obtain a clear description of the alga concerned or to distinguish it from one or more closely allied species. This is in part due to the impossibility of rendering, in Latin, the finer shades of meaning that can, for example, be expressed in French, German or English.
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LUND, J. An Alternative to Latin Diagnoses. Nature 165, 454 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165454b0
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