A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

arenaceus,-a,-um (adj.A) = arenarius,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: arenaceous, arenarious, sandy; “growing in sandy places” (Jackson); “resembling, made of, or containing sand, or sandy particles, sandy; growing in sandy places” (WIII); see arenarius,-a,-um (adj.A); see 'sandy;'

- solum,-i (s.n.II) arenaceum (adj.A), sandy soil.

- saxum (-i, s.n.II) arenaceum, abl. sg. saxo arenaceo, sandstone, q.v.

- lapis (-idis s.m.III) arenarius (adj.A), abl sg. lapide arenaceo, sandstone.

- [mosses] in rupibus et saxis calcareis, arenaceis et graniticis per regionem montanam totius Europae et in America septentrionali (C. Muell.), on rocks and stones calcareous, sandy [i.e. sandstone] and granitic throughout the montane region of all Europe and in north America.

- [Coralloides] Folia non habet. Crusta, e qua nascitur, rimosa & velut arenacea. (Dill.), it does not possess leaves. The crust, [from which it grows, is rimose [i.e. with cracks] and as if arenaceous [i.e. covered with sand, i.e. sandy particles].

- colorem tota planta ex cinereo ad glaucum vergentem habet, qui per siccitatem & in vetustioribus plantis in arenaceum abire solet (Dill.), the whole plant has a color verging from ash-white to glaucous which through dehydration [i.e. dessication] and in older plants, is wont to decay in a sandy place.

- color rubicundus, interdum arenaceus (Dill.), a color (blushing) red, sometimes sand-colored.

- coloris in recenti ex viridi flavicanti, in sicca obsolete albidi, qualis color arenae marinae (Dill.), in recent [i.e. fresh specimens] from green, becoming yellow [i.e. green to yellow], in dry specimens faintly [i.e. pale] white, of such a sort as the color of sea [i.e. beach] sand.

- [Tremella marina umbilicata. The Navel Laver] ad rupes & in arenosis nascens, quam Insulani cum butyro coctam comedunt (Dill.), growing on rocks and in sandy places, which the islanders eat cooked with butter.

- Olim in Germania locis udis, ad virgultorum excisorum stipites observavi, in Anglia vero, ubi aer est humidior & gelu remissius, locis etiam aridioribus arenosis, ad aggeres ericetorum frequenter provenit, sed humilior tum est, quam locis umbrosis & uliginosis, quibus laetior & longior nasci solet hic Muscus. (Dill.), I have observed it once in Germany in wet places, on the stalks of cut down thickets, but in England, where the air is moister and the frost more mild, in sandy and even more arid places, commonly found on the mounds of Erica associations [i.e. heath-land], but [then it is lower [i.e. of smaller stature], than in shady and marshy places, with which [conditions] this moss is more luxurient and longer than it is accustomed to grow.