Species within a genus

alchymia, = alchemy;
alkỉmiyā, = alchemy;
chemia, = reference found c. 300 in the Decree of Diocletian against ‘the old writings of the Egyptians, which treat of the chemia (transmutation) of gold and silver’; hence the word is explained by most as ‘Egyptian Art’, and identified with chemia, Greek form (in Pleutarch) of the native name of Egypt (land of Khem or Khamè, hieroglyphic Khmi, ‘black earth’, in contrast to the desert sand). If so it was afterwards etymologically confused with the like sounding Greek word chumeia, pouring infusion, from chu-, to pour, cf. chumos, juice, sap, which seemed to explain its meaning.
oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(bearing similar features to the genus ALCHEMILLA in the Family Rosaceae;)
(Ox, BL, K3)

althia, althaea, = wild mallow, marsh-mallow;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.

(ld, BL)

betula, betulla, = the birch;
baetulus, betulus, = a precious stone, round and of dark colour, a species of ceraunia;
-inus, = indicates possession or resemblance.
(ld, BL)

candeo, = to be brilliant, glittering, to shine, glitter, glisten;
candico, = to be whitish or white;
-icans, = indicates process of becoming or resemblance sometimes so close as to be almost identical.
(ld, BL)

capillus, = the hair, the hair of the head; (while crinis is any hair);
(hair, hair’s width, 0.18mm)
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
capillaris, = of or pertaining to the hair.
(ld, BL)

caput, = of things; the head, top, summit, point, end, extremity;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
capitatus, = having a head.
(capitate, with a knob-like head or tip)
(ld, BL)

caro, carnis, = flesh;
-eus, = indicates material or colour or resemblance in quality.
carneus, = of flesh.
(flesh-coloured)
(ld, BL)

chamae-, = on the earth, on the ground;
(on the ground, lowly, creeping)
repo, = to creep, crawl;
folium, = a leaf.
(foliage creeps along the ground)
(LS, BL, ld, LB)

columba, = a dove, pigeon;
-inus, = indicates possession or resemblance.
columbinus, = pertaining to a dove or pigeon, dove; little dove; dove-coloured.
(ld, BL)

cucullus, = a covering; a cap, hood;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
cucullatus, = hooded, having a hood.
(hooded)
(ld, BL)

cucullus, = a covering; a cap, hood;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
cucullatus, = hooded, having a hood.
(hooded)

stringo, strigosus,= to draw tight, to bind or tie tight; to draw, bind or press together; to pull or strip off, to pluck off, prune; lean, lank, thin, meagre;
(striga, = a straight rigid close-pressed rather short bristle-like hair)
folium, = a leaf.
(ld, BL)

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
petalos, = spread out, unfolded, broad, flat.
petalon, = a leaf.
(in modern botany, petal)
(LS, BL)

elegans, = choice, nice, fine, neat, tasteful, elegant.
(ld)

ē-, = out;
longus, = long;
elongo, = to prolong, protract;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(elongated)
(Ox, ld, BL)

grossus, = an unripe fig;
-ulus, = diminutive;
grossulus, = a small unripe fig;
-arius, = indicates connexion or possession;
grossularia, = the goosberry;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(having characteristics of the gooseberry)
(ld, BL, Ox, K3)

in- = denotes rest or motion within, on, upon, among, at; into, to towards;
caro, carnis, = flesh;
incarno, = to make flesh;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
incarnari, incarnatus, = to be made flesh, become incarnate.
(flesh-coloured)
(ld, BL)

llobos, = the lobe or lower part of the ear;
(capsule or pod);
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(partly divided into a determinate number of segments)
(LS, BL)

longus¸ = long;
caulis, = the stalk or stem of a plant.
(long-stemmed)
(ld, BL)

longus, = long;
folium, = a leaf.
(long leaves)
(ld, BL)

monile, = a necklace, a collar;
monilia, = jewels;
forma, = form, contour, figure, shape, appearance.
(moniliform, i.e. terete or cylindrical but contracted at regular intervals like a string of beads; neckless-shaped)
(ld, BL)

multus, = much, great, many;
caulis, = the stalk or stem of a plant.
multicaulis, = many-stalked.
(many-stemmed)
(ld, BL)

murra, myrrha, murrha, = the myrrh-tree, an Arabian tree, of which myrrh was the sap;
folium, = a leaf.
(with leaves like myrrh in the family BURSERACEAE)

coriannon, = coriander – the plant or seed;
coriandrum, = coriander;
folium, = a leaf.
(ld, K3, LS)

papilio, papilionis, = a butterfly, moth;
-aceus, = indicates resemblance.
(butterfly-like)
(the plant ‘stinks’ like a goat)
(ld, BL, LB)

penna, pinna, = a feather; a wing;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness. pennatus, pinnatus, = winged.
(feathered, winged)
(ld, BL)

psammos, = sand;
philios, = loving, friendly, kind.

(LS)

saeta, seta, = a thick, stiff hair, a bristle; of the spiny leaves of coniferous trees;
(a bristle, bristle-like organ, as the fruit-stalk of a (sporophore) moss)
-ulus, = diminutive;
saetula, setula, = a little coarse hair of an animal, a small bristle;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
(ld, BL)

suburbanus, = situated near the city of Rome, suburban;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(pertaining to towns)

bis, bi-, = twice, twofold, having two-;
penna, pinna, = a feather; a wing;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness;
pennatus, pinnatus, = winged.
findo, fidi, fissum = to cleave, split, part, separate, divide; a cleft, slit, fissure;
(split-)
(twice divided almost to the axis into lateral segments, something in the way of the side divisions of a feather)
(ld, BL)

tabula, = a board, plank;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
tabularis, = flattened horizontally, plate like, (in geographical epithets) growing on Table Mountain, South Africa)
(ld, BL)

tristis,= sad, sorrowful, mournful, dejected, melancholy, disconsolate, trist; gloomy, melancholy, stern, harsh.
(sad, dull-coloured)
(ld, BL)

vitis, = a vine, grape-vine; a vine (of the pumpkin, cucumber;
viti-, = pertaining to the vine;
folium, = a leaf.
vitifolius, = with leaves like Vitex.
(vitex, = the chaste-tree, Abraham’s balm)

(ld, BL)