Carl Linnaeus Quote

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.


Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 151. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735–1789 (1971)


The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.