Ranunculus alismaefolius or alismifolius ?

[Curtis Clark]

At 03:36 PM 4/14/97 -0500, Frederick J. Peabody wrote:
 I
>would recommend "alismofolius" as my first choice, with "alismifolius" as
>a not-so-acceptable, but tolerable, alternative.

To me, the issue of "alismofolius" is that it combines a Greek word and a
Latin word, *not* a Greek root and a Latin root, since it uses the Greek
combining form. I would much prefer that compound words be in a single
language. As far as I can see, the only way to do this is to Latinize all
the parts. So "alismifolius" would be preferable.  If the epithet had been
alism*phyllus, "alismophyllus" would be preferable, since the entire Greek
word would be latinized.


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