Genera within a family

ceras, = horn;
-ium, = 'characteristic of'.
(horned capsules)
(LS, BL, Le)

dios, = godlike, excellent, mighty; divine, marvellous;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(flower of Zeus**; probably referring to the scent)
(LS, Le)

petros, = a piece of rock, a stone;
ragas, ragades, = rent/s, chink/s.
rhax, rhag-, = grape. (allusion unclear)
(possibly a reference to the brown stone-like calex of a single bud at the end of a stem from which the petals emerge)
(LS, Ox, Le, LB)

polys, polle, poly, = (of number), many; (of size), heavy; (of value), much;
carpos, = fruit.
(LS)

Σέίληνός, Silenus,** = the tutor and constant attendant of Bacchus; represented a baldhead, with short horns and a flat nose, as drunken, lascivious, and mounted on an ass.
sialon, = spittle, foam from the mouth, saliva, slaver.
(sticky secretion of stems which entrap small insects)
(ld, LS, Le)

sperma, = that which is sown, seed;
gua, = piece of land, field;
-ulus, = diminutive;
speiro, = to scatter like seed, fling, throw about;
-arius, = indicates connection or possession.
(resembles SPERGULA (q.v.))
(LS, BL, Le)

stella, = a star;
-aria, = resembles, like.
stellaris, = of or belonging to a star, starry.
(stellate, starry, i.e. with narrow divisions radiating from a centre like the rays of a star)
(shape of the flower)
(ld, BL, Le)

corrigo, conrigo, conrexi, = to make straight, set right, bring into order;
-olus, = diminutive.
(ld, BL)

sperma, = that which is sown, seed;
gua, = piece of land, field;
-ulus, = diminutive.
speiro, = to scatter like seed, fling, throw about.
(species wide distribution)
(LS, BL, Le)

sagina, = a stuffing, cramming, fattening, feeding, feasting; fatness, corpulence.
(fattening fodder; some species thought to have been used to fatten sheep)
(ld, Le)