Species within a genus

For:- 1) Harry Bolus (1834-1911) or (2) Hermann Harry Bolus (1862-1930), son of Harry Bolus. Most taxa honor Bolus Sr.
(Ch)

brachys, = short, few, little; phyllon, = a leaf. (short leaved)
(LS, BL)

Now Capeobolus brevicaulis
(PS)

broma, = that which is eaten, food; -oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of. (resembling the genus BROMUS (q.v.))
(LS, BL, K3)

For Nicholaas Laurens Burman (1734/1743-1793).**
(Ch)

capillus, = the hair, the hair of the head; (while crinis is any hair); (hair, hair’s width, 0.18mm.) -aceus, = indicates resemblance.
(ld, BL)

compar, = like or equal to another. (the sedges of this species appear identical)
(ld, K3)

crassus, = solid, thick, dense, fat, gross, etc.
(ld)

crinis, = the hair; metonymous, objects resembling hair; folium, = a leaf.
(ld)

cuspis, = a point, the pointed end of any thing; -idus, = indicates a state or action in progress (‘-ish’); -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (cuspate; a pointed end of any organ, especially a sharp rigid point of a leaf)
(ld, BL, Ox)

exilis, = small, thin, slender, lank, meagre, poor, feeble; (small, meagre, weak, thin, slender)
(ld, BL)

eximo, eximius, = taken out from the mass, i.e. excepted, exempt; select, choice, distinguished, uncommon, excellent.
(ld, BL)

fascio, = to envelop with bands, to swathe; -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (clustered, grouped together)
(ld, BL)

fimbriae, = fibres, threads, shreds, fibrous part, fringe; -olus, = diminutive. -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. fimbriatus, = fibrous, fringed. (fimbria, = the dentated or fringe-like ring of the operculum of mosses, by the elastic power of which the operculum is displaced) -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (fimbria, = the dentated or fringe-like ring of the operculum of mosses, by the elastic power of which the operculum is displaced)
(ld, BL, Ox)

flexus, = a bending, turning, winding; -osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development. (winding)
(ld, BL)

lingua, = the tongue; -ula, = diminutive; ligula, lingula, = a little tongue, the tongue of a shoe, a shoe trap, shoe-latchet; a spoon or ladle; -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. lingulatus, = tongue-shaped, lingulate. -atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(ld, BL)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant; stachys, = ear of corn. (in modern botany, ‘spike’)
(LS, BL)

silva, sylva, = a wood, forest, woodland; -icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’. (pertaining to woods, growing wild) silvaticus, = of or belonging to a wood or to trees, wood- ; of plants, = growing wild.
(ld, BL)

thermos, = warm, hot; therma, = hot places; (warm springs) -alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with. (relating to warm springs or water)
(LS, BL)