Botanists often locate plant collection sites on U.S. public land survey maps. Standard notation at the section level is exemplified by “Section 8, Township 5 North, Range 3 East, 1st Principal Meridian,” frequently abbreviated to “S8, T5N, R3E, 1 PM.” For reasons given below, it is suggested that the second and third parts of the notation, which disclose the survey coordinates of a particular 36-section township, be combined as follows: “Township (5 North, 3 East),” or “T(5N,3E).” The abbreviated notation then becomes “S8, T(5N,3E), 1PM.”