A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


Vascular bundle, a strand of wood fibers and associated tissues: Fasciculus,-i (s.m.II) vascularis (adj.B), abl. sg. fasciculo vasculari. Cambium fasciculare, abl. sg. cambio fasciculari, the fascicular cambium, “that portion which belongs to the vascular bundles” (Jackson).
Vascular plants: planta,-ae (s.f.I) vasculosa (adj.A): - Flora sicula, exhibens plantas vasculosas in Sicilia aut sponte crescentes aut frequentissime cultas, secundum systema naturale digestas", 1826; Sicilian flora, displaying the vascular plants in Sicily either growing spontaneously or most frequently cultivated [Karel Bořivoj Presl (1794–1852), of Prague].
vascular, fibrovascular: (fibro)vasalis,-e (adj. B), (fibro)vascularis,-e (adj.B); cf. falsinervis,-e (adj.B): with nerves formed of cellular (not fibrovascular) tissue (Stearn); - plantae vasculares, vascular plantes, i.e. phanerogams and pteridophytes. - fasciculus fibrovasalis totam radicis longitudinem percurrens, fibrovascular bundle running down the whole length of the root (Stearn). - endodermis 2 fasciculis fibrovascularibus discretis, endoderm with 2 discrete fibrovascular bundles. Angienchyma,-atis (s.n.III), abl. sg. angienchymate: “(obsol.) vascular tissue of any sort” (Lindley); see -enchyma,-atis (s.n.III). Systema vasculare, abl. sg. systemate vasculari: the vascular system, “all that part of the interior structure of a plant into whose composition spiral vessels enter, or their modifications” (Lindley); [of vascular plants] “the interior parts in which the vessels occur” (Jackson). tigellularis,-e (adj.B): “vascular” (Jackson), [perhaps dim. > L. tignum,-i (s.n.II), a piece or stick of timber; a trunk of a tree, a log, beam (Lewis & Short), e.g. dim. tigillum,-i (s.n.II), a small piece of wood]. Vascular Plants: plantae vasculares, abl. pl. plantis vascularibus; or simply, in the nom. pl., Vasculares (pl.f.III): “those which possess vessels, as Phanerogams and Filicales” (Jackson). NOTE: vascularis,-e (adj.B0, vasculosus,-a,-um (adj.A): “containing spiral vessels or their modifications” (Lindley).