A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Ambulacrum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. ambulacro: avenue or walk shaded with trees; see road; a place for walking, a walk or promenade planted with trees (often near a house) (Wiktionary Feb. 2019).

“An ambulacrum is an architectural term for the atrium, courtyard, or parvise in front of a basilica that is surrounded by arcades or colonnades, often containing a fountain, and is surrounded by trees. It can also refer to any walking path specifically created with trees” (Wikipedia Feb. 2019) [> L. ambulo, -avi,-atum, 1 to go on foot, walk; to walk for pleasure, take a walk; to parade];

- nascitur locis gramineis æque ac gramine destitutis, in ambulacris hortorum glareosis (Dill.), it arises in grassy places as well as places destitute of grass, in the gravelly walkways of gardens.

- in ambulacris Horti Oxoniensis glareæ & lapillis arcte adnascitur (Dill.), in the walkways of Oxford Garden it tightly grows on gravel and pebbles.

- Vidi olim Gissae, postea hic in ambulacris glareosis Horti Oxoniensis & in area graminea varietatem C. ante Hybernaculum vetus (Dill.), I once saw it in Gissa, some time after this in the gravelly walkways of the Garden at Oxford and the variety in a grassy area before the old Hybernaculum [i.e. greenhouse, conservatory.

- Ultra Juguli Plebaniam in Castaneto Monialium Divæ Felicitatis, & in umbrosis ambulacris viridarii Boboli (Dill.), beyond the parsonage of the Jugulum [Plebania Juguli] in the Chestnut [Castanea] grove of the nuns of Saint Felicity, and in the shaded promenade of the Viridarium [i.e. Garden] of Boboli.

- [Воtrуtis comata] per semitas secus magnum ambulacrum Regiae suburbanae villae, ad marcida, et semiputrida ligna, et tritici culmos, tempore brumali, non raro invenitur (Mich.), it is not rarely encountered along the paths along the great [shaded] walks of the Royal suburban villa, on withered and half rotted wood, also the culms of wheat, in the winter time [i.e. in wintery weather].

NOTE: the great ambulacrum may refer to a monumental tree-lined avenue at the Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill), south of Florence, linking the Villa with the City.

- [fungus] vulgaris ad dumeta, in ambulacris frondosis, secus vias sylvaticas etc. (S&A), common in thickets, in leafy walks, along woodland paths etc.

- in Europa media ad cortices (praesertim ulmorum, salicum, populorumque) haud rarum, prope vias et urbes, atque in ambulacris (Nyl.), in middle Europe on bark (primarily Elms, Willows, and Populus) hardly rare, near roads and cities, and also in shady avenues.

- [fungi] in abiegnis unico tantum loco solitarium invenimus: praefert enim apud nos quoque nemora et ambulacra frondosa umbrosa subhumentia — crescens v. c. in hortis ad Jankendorfi; in ambulacro amoeno illo, quod est inter arcem aedemque sacram Ullersdorfensem; in fageto umbroso montis Löbaviensis satis frequens (S&A), we have found it solitary in only one place on fir [-wood]: for it chooses with us also woodlands and leafy [i.e. deciduous trees] shaded, somewhat humid avenues - growing for example in the gardens at Jankendorf; in that visually beautiful avenue, which is between the citadel and the holy shrine at Ullersdorf; in a shady beech wood of the Löbaviensis mountain quite frequent.