Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes...For a single genus, a single name.


Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 210. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735–1789 (1971)

Carl Linnaeus Quotes

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of...

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of...

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of...

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of...