A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Tanner, leather-worker: coriarius,-ii (s.m.II), q.v., abl. sg. coriario.

of or pertaining to the tanning process, ‘for tanning;’

of tanners, leather-workers: coriarius,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.

Tanner’s bark, tanbark, tan (Eng. noun), the bark of oak, hemlock or other trees, bruised and broken (by a mill), used as a source of tannin for converting hides into leather; also used as a mulch. Formerly used in a vaporarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. varporario: “in botanic gardens, a stove or formerly a “Bark-stove” (Jackson); (in horticulture) “a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner’s bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat” (Wikipedia Dec. 2016); note that dung or manure produces the same conditions. A source of species of fungi; see vaporarium,-ii (s.n.II).

Cortex,-icis (s.m.II) coriarii (gen.sg. coriarius,-ii (s.m.II); abl. sg. cortice coriarii: tanner’s bark;

- non infrequens, gregarius, caespitosus, cortici coriario (Seer Lohgruhen) innascitur fungus noster (S&A), our fungus not infrequent, gregarious [i.e. colonial], caespitose [i.e. growing in clumps], growing on tanner’s bark.

Cortex coriarius (adj.A): tanning bark;

-[fungi] itaque Coprinis omnino accensenda est haecce species: quam caespitosam frequentemque, quotannis redivivam, in cortice coriario recente habemus (hinter dem Bruedergarten): vigentem aestate et autumno (S&A), accordingly, this very species is by all means to be added to the Coprini: which we take possession of recently on tanner’s bark (behind the Bruedergarten): caespitose [i.e. in clumps] and frequent, revived [i.e. from a dry state] every year, flourishing in summer and autumn.