A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Luteum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. luteo: a color, golden-yellow; the color of mud; “a (bright) yellow color; yellow clothing; a plant yielding a yellow dye, = lutum (a plant, Reseda luteola); the yellow part of an egg, the yolk” (Glare); also “luteus,-a,-um (adj.A): “from Lutum, dyer’s greenweed, the source of a yellow dye” (Stearn 1996);

NOTE: the color seems to be associated with a mixture of red.

- [moss] capsula erecta, cylindrica vel ovali-cylindica, basi subinaequali in pedicellum attenuata, exsiccando plicata, superne constricta, e luteo rufescens (DozyMoek], capsule erect, cylindric or oval-cylindric, at the base somewhat unequal, drawn out on a pedicel [i.e. a seta], plicate when dried out, constricted above, from golden-yellow to reddish.

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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