A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vage (adv.): here and there, far and wide, dispersedly; vaguely, uncertainly; ramblingly, wanderingly, unfixedly, unsettledly; irregularly, inconstantly, doubtfully, vaguely, indefinitely; with no particular direction; see vagus,-a,-um (adj.A); cf. obscure (adv.);

- caules vage ramosi, the stems irregularly branched.

- regiones temperatas vage habitat; temperate regions far and wide it inhabits.

- frons plana integra vage laciniata aut subregulariter dichotoma, frond flat, entire, here and there laciniate or nearly regularly dichotomous.

- caulis vage pluriramosus, ramis remotis longiusculis divergentibus (Steph.), the stem here and there many-branched, with the branches remote, rather long, diverging.

- at in ramos ramulosque teneriores numerosos, vage pulverem undique (quo difflato luculenter oculos subeunt) perreptantes, and into numerous thin branches and branchlets irregularly on all sides creeping through the dust.

- quod ad caulis divisionem pertinet, surculi sunt ‘vage ramosi’ ubi rami e caule inordinate procedunt normamque nullam in directione et dispostione servarit (Brid.), that which relates to the division of the stem, the surculi are ‘vage ramosi’ [i.e. irregularly branched] when the branches procede from the stem irregularly and it will have kept no norm [i.e. standard]in direction and arrangement.