A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vice (adv.; abl.sg. of vicis, q.v.): instead of, for, in place of, on account of; [> L. vicis (= gen.sg.: nom. sg. not occurring), acc. sg. vicem, abl. sg. vice; nom. & acc. pl. vices, dat. and abl. pl. vicibus: a feminine noun 'change, interchange, alternation, alternate or reciprocal succession; time, turn' (Lewis & Short)];

- [fungus] bis inventus fungus notabilis: prima vice cellaris in lignis pineis vetustis (cellae Seminarii) Januario — secunda in iisdem sub dio degentibus, sed loco suffocato ad basin sepium puridarum (S&A); a notable fungus found twice: the first time on the old pine wood of a cellar (of the store-room of the Seminarium) in January – the second living on the same [sc. wood] under the sky [i.e. in the open], but in an airless [i.e. strangled, smothered] place at the base of rotted hedges.

- [fungus] rarissimum item unica solum vice inventum in pomario domestico ad folia Pyri Mali (S&A), very rare similarly encountered only a single time in a domestic orchard on the leaves of Pyrus Malus.

- in adverbial phrases: per vices, ‘alternately,’ ‘in turn,’ 'by turns;' in vicem also in vices: ‘alternately, reciprocally, by turns;’ see ‘vicis;’

- (in adverbial use) vicem (with genitive or pron. adj.) in the place, part, or turn (of), on (someone’s account), as a substitute or surrogate (for); also ‘vice’ (in a similar sense, with genitive) (Glare).

- [Thalia geniculata] lacinia cui anthera adfixa 1. inserta, improprie filamentum dicitur, sed vices ejusdem praebet, labiumque superius nectarii appellari debet (Swartz), the lacinia to which the anther is attached or [l. = ‘vel’] inserted, is improperly called a filament, but there appears to be an alternative for it [i.e. a substitute for the same thing], and it ought to be called the upper lip of the nectary.

- vice versa, also versibus versis, “with reversal of the regular order; conversely, contrariwise” (Glare).

- ordines dentium duos vice unius, two rows of teeth, instead of one (Stearn 1983)

- folia 4-6.5 cm (vice 10.5-14 cm), leaves 4-6.5 cm (instead of 10.5-14 cm).

- foliis linearibus vice oblanceolatis, with leaves linear instead of oblanceolate.

- coloniae in agaro malto crescentes vice agaro hordeo, colonies growing in a malt agar instead of an agar of barley.

- fructus vice bulbili, fruits instead of bulbils.

- pilei arcte imbricati, interdum lobati, alia vice undulato repandi (S&A), the caps closely imbricate, sometimes lobed, others in turn undulate-repand.