A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Ammi (s.n. perhaps, as a native noun, an indeclinable neuter) Linn. The plant delights to grow in sandy places, hence the name from ammos, sand. Apiaceae (Paxton); “Gk. and L, name of an umbelliferous plant. Umbelliferae (Stearn 1996); A. crinitum, A. trifoliatum.

The Greek name Ammi is a variation, spelled ami,-eOs (s.n.III) in Liddell & Scott; it is the Bishop’s Weed, “ajowan [= ajwain] [=carom], Carum copticum L. (Liddell & Scott), = Trachyspermum ammi. The word does not derive from ‘ammos,’ sand. It is a neuter noun declined like basis,-is (s.f.III), q.v., with the alternative gen.sg.-eOs, only Ammi is neuter, hence it would be spelled Ammi in the acc.sg., otherwise it is declined like ‘basis.’

Ammineae (also Subtribus 2. Euammineae) was the name of a Tribe, used by Bentham & Hooker, but the ending -ineae is presently used for Suborder.

- [Tribus Hydrocotyleae] Tribus ab Ammineis differt inflorescentia et vittarum vallecularium absentia (B&H), the tribe differs from the Ammineae by the inflorescence and the lack of vallecular vittae.

- vittae valleculares desunt etiam in perpaucis Ammineis (B&H), the vallecular vittae and also absent in a very few of the Ammineae.

- Petroselinum trifoliatum et P. Seuberlianum ex ins. Azoricis potius ad Ammi quam ad Petroselinum (id quod jam suspicatus est auctor) referenda videntur (B&H), Petroselinum trifoliatum and P. Seuberlianum from the Azores Islands seems to be referred to Ammi than to Petroselinum (a fact which already the author has suspected [Ammi = acc.sg.].

AMMIOPSIS, resembling the genus Ammi, is placed in Tribus VIII. Caucalineae (B&H).