A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Murus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. muro, nom.pl. muri, gen.pl. murorum, acc.pl. muros, dat. & abl.pl. muris: wall, q.v.;

NOTE: paries,-etis (s.m.III) pertains to the walls of houses, whereas murus is the wall of a city or other large construction. In botanical applications paries is used of the walls of organs.

NOTE: the murus (pl. muri), in the external feature of the pollen wall, are ridges separating the lumina (spaces between the muri) in reticulate pollen (Radford et al, 1974).

- plerique musci, qui ad muros, saxa, parietes habitant, aut petrosa, glareosa, aprica vel arenosa colunt, florere properant (Brid.), most [i.e. the greater part of the] mosses which live on (city) walls, stones, the walls (of houses), or inhabit rocky, gravelly, open or sandy [places], quickly prepare to flower.

- hab. ad muros in humidis, it grows on walls in humid places.

- [moss] in muris lutosis Tranquebariae primus legit Rottler (C.Muell.), on mud walls of Tranquebaria Rottler first collected it.

- in muris amphitheatri Veronensis, on the walls of the amphitheater of Verona.

- habitat in Res publica Tennessee ad Nashville collegii muros, it grows in the State of Tennessee on the walls of the college at Nashville.

- in cellis vinariis xenodochii nostri ad dolia vetusta frequens, ad muros rarius (S&A), frequent in the wine cellars of our guest-house on old casks, less frequently on the walls.

- prope Tergestum, in muro sylvam quercuum loci Melara cingente (Mueller), near Tergestum, on a wall surrounding a forest of oaks of a locality in Melara.

- in agris, graminosis, pratis humidis, ad fossarum margines, in muris rupibus et arborum truncis terra obtectis per totam Europam (C. Mueller), in cultivated fields, grassy places [sc. locis], wet meadows, on the edges of ditches, on walls, rocks and the trunks of trees covered with soil throughout all Europe.

- locus in corrupto pavimento murorum argillaceorum (Hedw.), the site on the broken down pavement of clay walls.

- [Endocarpon pusillum; lichen] Mihi circa Lipsiam obviam fuit Schoenfeldi supra murum antiquum argillaceum, et ad declivitatem aggeris praestructi piscinae, in sylva Lindenthalensi (Hedw.; Adumb.], was encountered by me around Leipzig, upon the ancient clay wall of Schoenfeld, and on the declivity of the prepared mound of the fishpool, in the forest of Lindenthal (Leipzig).

- tam hæc, quam præcedens species, frequentissima est in muris Horti Botanici Oxoniensis (Dill.), this one, as much as the preceeding species, is extremely frequent on the walls [i.e. of buildings] of the Botanical Garden of Oxford.

- auctumno & hyeme oritur & in ver usque durat, observataque mihi variis circa Londinum locis ad fossas & pone muros, ubi vernali & aestivo calore mox exsiccata evanescit (Dill.), it arises in autumn and winter and endures as far as into spring, and observed by me in various places around London in ditches and behind walls when, in the vernal and summer heat, soon afterwards [having] dried up, it disappears.