A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Paragraph (Eng. noun): “a distinct section or subdivision of a written or printed composition that consists of from one to many sentences, forms a rhetorical unit (as by dealing with a particular point of the subject ... and is indicated by beginning on a new usu. indented line” (WIII): paragraphus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. paragrapho, nom. pl. paragraphi [> “Medieval Latin ‘paragraphus’ sign used to mark a new section of writing, fr. Gk. paragraphos, line used to mark change of persons in a dialogue, fr. paragraphein, to write alongside” (WIII); > Gk. paragraphos (sc. grammE) (s.f.I), “line or stroke drawn in the margin, with a dot over it, to mark the change of persons in a dialogue” (Liddell & Scott), cf. paragraphE (s.f.I) “anything written beside, marginal note or sign, to make the close of a sentence” etc. (Liddell & Scott)];

- [algae; Diatoms] ut Limaces testacei a Limacibus nudis, ut Zoophyta ab Hydris diversa sunt, ita Schizonema a Cymbella.- Cymbella enim, ut illud genus in anteriori paragrapho definivimus, corpuscula continet in muco difformi et absque ordine sparsa (Agardh; Diatoms), just as the testaceous slugs [i.e. snails] are different from the naked [i.e. lacking shells] slugs, as the Zoophytes from the Hydras, so Schizonema is distinct from Cymbella - for Cymbella, as we [i.e. I] have defined that genus in the anterior [i.e. previous] paragraph, contains bodies in an irregular mucus and is spread out [i.e. scattered] without order.