Species within a genus

ater, atra, = coal-black, lustreless-black, sable, dark;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(ld, BL)

buxus, = the pale, evergreen box-tree; box-wood, for things made of box-wood; a pipe or flute;
folium, = a leaf.
(with leaves like the ‘box’ in the genus BUXUS)
(ld, BL, K3)

callum, = the hard skin or the hard flesh of plants;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
callosus, = with a hard skin, hard-skinned, thick-skinned, callous.
(ld, BL)

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
stikhos, = a row, line, rank.
distichus, = arranged in two rows.

(LS, BL)

For Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (1861-1948).**
(Ch)

ERICA (q.v.) = evergreen heath;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(heather-like)
(BL)

gracilis, gracilus, = thin, slight, slender, slim, meagre, lean; simple, plain, unadorned;
-ilis, = indicates capacity or ability. Hence a property or quality.
(thin, slender)
(ld, BL)

humus, humi, = the earth, the ground, the soil; on the ground;
-ilis, = indicates capacity or ability. Hence a property or quality.
humilis, = on the ground, i.e. low, lowly, small, slight.
(ld, BL)

im-, = in, into, for, contrary;
(without)
barba, = of plants, the wool; the beard, of men.
imberbis, inberbis, = without a beard, beardless.
(BL, Ox, ld)

lasios, = shaggy with hair or wool, hairy;
(shaggy, woolly)
carpos, = fruit.
(with woolly fruit)
(LS, BL)

minuo, minutus, = to make smaller, to lessen, diminish; little, small, minute;
flos, floris, = a blossom, flower.
(ld)

parvus, = little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable.
minor, = less, lesser, smaller, inferior.
minimus, =, very small, very little; least, smallest.
(little, small, puny)
flos, floris, = a blossom, flower.
(ld, BL)

pluma, = a small, soft feather; fine, soft feathers, down;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
plumosus, = full of down or feathers, covered with feathers, feathered.
(ld, BL)

selago, = the club-moss resembling the savin-tree, Lycopodium selago;
(SELAGO (q.v.))
-inus, = indicates possession or resemblance;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(ld, BL)

spico, = to furnish with spikes or ears;
spica, spicus, = a point; of grain, an ear, spike; of things of a similar shape, e.g. a top, tuft, head of other plants;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(ld, BL)

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)
-ulus, = diminutive;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
(covered with strigae)
(ld, BL)