A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Extinctorium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. extinctorio; also exstinctorium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. exstinctorio: candle snuffer, extinguisher (Eng. noun): “a hollow, conical cap typically of metal that is used for extinguishing the flame of a candle, lamp, or torch” (WIII); candle extinguisher, a cone-shaped cup suspended from the apex on a stick or pole that fits over the burning wick to snuff out the flame; see calyptra,-ae (s.f.I) [> L. extinguens,-entis (part.B), q.v., putting out, quenching];

NOTE: pileolus,-i (s.m.II): a small cap or cap-like body; defined by J.S. Henslow as a primordial leaf like an extinguisher, which encloses the bud” (Jackson);

“Muscus pileolo magno acuta infra aperto extinctorium referente, (synonym of the moss Encalypta, noted by Hedwig), a moss with a great cap-like body, acute, open down below, resembling a candle snuffer.” Michelli, in his description of ‘Fungi,’ said, under fifteen species, that his ‘pileolus’ was in the shape of an extinctorium, or candle-snuffer;

- Fungus parvus, fulvus, seu mustellinus, pileolo extinctorii forma (Mich.), a small fungus, fulvous [i.e. tawny, yellowish-brown] or mustellinous [weasel-colored, with the pileolus in the form of an extinctorium [i.e. candle-snuffer].

- Fungus ad superficiem terrae vix apparens, pileolo e spadiceo fulvo, forma fere extinctorii, lamellis, & pediculo albis (Mich.), a fungus scarcely visible on the surface of the earth, with a pileolus dark brownish – tawny, almost in the shape of a candle-snuffer, with the lamellae and peduncle white.

[snail] Desmaulus extinctorium (Lamarck, 1822): = Calyptra (Calyptraeidae): Calyptraea extinctorium Lamarck, 1822: Conical slipper snails (Desmaulus extinctorium. The snail genus Calptraea of Lamarck is described with a “shell conical, with a wide base.”

[moss] Bryum extinctorium Linn. 1581; Bryum calyptra extinctorii figura minus (Dill. in Hedwig), a Bryum, smaller, the calyptra in the shape of a candle snuffer (= Encalypta,-ae (s.f.I)): the candlesnuffer calyptra: the calyptra completely covering the capsule; “covered with a veil, in reference to the large calyptra which resembles a candlesnuffer, hence the common name extinguisher moss (C&A).

Encalypta,-ae (s.f.I): the “extinguisher-cap moss” from the shape of the calyptra.

- [Encalypta; moss] mox dignoscitur calyptra, quacum vix non semper operculum admodum angustum secedit, simul etiam peristomum secum rapit; unde sporangia cylindrica, ostium nudum (Hedw.), right away [i.e. directly] distinguished by the calyptra, with which the quite narrow operculum not always separates, and at the same time it carries off the peristome with it; whence [i.e. for which reason] the sporangia [i.e. capsule] is cylindric, the mouth naked.