A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Mentio,-onis (s.f.III), abl. sg. mentione: “a calling to mind, a cursory speaking of, a making mention, mentioning, naming, mention” (Lewis & Short);

Mention (Eng.noun): a brief or casual statement about or reference to someone or something, without going into detail.

- Explicatio Nominum Scriptorum Rei Herbariae, quorum mentio fit in hoc opere (Tourn.), an explanation of the names of authors of botany, the mention of whom may be made in this work.

- [Genus III. Tremella] ulvae nomen apud Graecos non occurrit, Latini vero frequentem ejus mentionem fecerunt, v.gr. Virgilius in Bucol. Eclog. 8 (Dill.) the name of Ulva among the Greeks does not occur, however the Latins make frequent mention of it, for example, Virgil in the Bucolics, Eclogue 8.

- Superest ut eorum, qui exemplaribus Muscorum collatis hanc Historiam locupletarunt, gratam mentionem faciam (Dill.), it remains that, of those, who enriched this History with their gathered [i.e. collected] specimens of mosses, I may make grateful mention.

- (algae) ramificationes maxime varias, cornu cervi formam nonnunquam aemulantes vidi in Hydrodictyi cellulis eremobiis, quarum alio loco mentionem feci (Braun), the branchings most variable, I have sometimes seen them suggesting the form of a deer’s horn in the eremobic cells of Hydrodictyon, of which I have made mention in another place.

- Si in Loeselii Catalogo 1654. publicato (qui liber nobis deest) eodem modo, quo in Flora Pruss. recenseatur, tum prima hujus mentio & inventio Loeselio debetur (Dill.), if in the Catalogue [i.e. inventory] of Loesel published in 1654 (which I don’t have [i.e. which book is lacking to me]) it would have been reviewed [or enumerated] in the same way as in the Flora of Prussia, then its first mention [i.e. naming] and discovery ought to be with Loesel.

- [fungus] color modo cinereus, modo argillaceus; sed sordide rubiginosum, quem icon Persooniana (Icones pictae Tab. III. f. 1. 2. 3.) in nostro certe exemplari ostendit, numquam in hac specie observavimus: de quo cum in descriptionibus autoris mentio nuspiam fiat, mero forsan pictoris errori tribuendus erit (S&A), the color is sometimes ash-gray, sometimes clay-colored, [i.e. yellowish-brown]; but the dirty rusty-red, which the Personian illustration (Icones pictae, plate III figures 1.2.3.) shows, certainly in our COPY, we have never observed in this species: about which, when a mention may be nowhere in the descriptions of the author, perhaps it will have to be attributed to nothing short of [i.e. purely] the error of the painter [i.e. artist].