A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Petropolis,-is (s.f.III), abl. sg. Petropole, later Petrograd; then Leningrad, U.S.S.R., presently St. Petersberg, [Petrograd]; adj. petropolitanus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.; see polis, gen.sg. polis (s.f.III).

Abbrev. Petrop.; Petropolit.

- JOANNES AMMAN, M.D. Academ. Scient. Imper. Petropolit. Socius (Dill.), Socius Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis petropolitanae, Fellow of the Imperial Petropolitan Academy of Sciences [St.Petersberg].

- [moss] Pleuroziopsis ruthenica (ruthenian, from the Latin adj. ruthenicus, of or pertaining to Ruthenia, of southern European Russia; loosely: “Russian;” the type was found by Winemann in the the Herbarium of the Academy of Science Petropolis (i.e. Leningrad, now St. Petersberg) from the borough or town of Sitka on its islands, the city once the capital of Russian America.

- In insula Sitka. Herb. Acad. Scient. Petrop.; on the island Sitka. Herbarium Academiae Scientiarum Petropolis, Herbarium of the Academy of the Sciences of Petropolis.