Scientific Names, a different aspect of plant labelling. In my early days I used to tutor undergraduate Ag. Sci. students. Part of the job was helping with the formalities of essay writing and presenting experimental results.
The convention used for writing scientific names came up in Lesson One or soon after. The name is written in italics, (or, in those days of hand written reports, underlined), the genus starts with a capital letter, the species with lower case.
I have not kept up with the literature on the subject so the convention may well have changed. I was surprised when I first posted to the MGS Forum to find my italics changed back to the prevailing type.
I would like to hear from the experts on the Forum what the current convention is. The italic habit is so ingrained in me that I wait for some terrible punishment when I don't use them.