A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Cicatricula,-ae (s.f.I): cicatricule, a small scar; “the scar formed by the separation of a leaf from its stem” (Lindley) [> L. dim. cicatric,-icis (s.f.III), q.v.)

- Pisum] Ochri T. Semina cicatricula oblonga notantur (Linn.), the seeds of Tournefort’s ‘Ochrus’ [sc. genus] is marked with an oblong small scar.

- Pisi T. Semina cicatricula subrotunda alligantur (Linn.), the seeds of Tournefort’s ‘Pisum’ [sc. genus] are bound with a somewhat rounded little scar.

- [Cocos nucifera] palma spadicibus alaribus; fructu maximo; caudice subaequali, cicatriculis circularibus scabro (Swartz), a palm with axillary spadices; with the fruit very large; with a somewhat symmetrical caudex, scabrous [i.e. rough] with circular cicatricules.

[in fucus, mosses, ferns] “near the umbilicus of the seed, the vitellus has growing to it, a "germinating cicatricle," which is not separable from the remaining substance of the kernel, nor even distinguishable from it, except by its paler colour, and more medullary consistence; as we observe in the seeds of Lycopodium (Barton).

“The acotyledonous seed has no conspicuous or distinct embryo, but contains within itself only a “punctum saliens,” or mere germinating cicatricle; or a certain simple pimordium of a radicle, implanted in the kernel, and which is several times larger than it; as in Ruppia, Zostera, Zamia, the Fuci, the Mosses, the Ferns, and the Fungous plants” (Barton).

“In some cases, the corcle [i.e. punctum medullare or medullary point, produced by fecundation] is so little augmented, that, even in the matured seed, it is either altogether imperceptible, or it appears only like a paler point or dot, which Gaertner names the cicatricle {ciatricula), and which has nothing of the embryo but the principle of life (or the capacity of being roused to the possession of life), and the faculty of germinating” (Barton).