A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Pyxidula,-ae (s.f.I), dim. pyxis,-idis (s.f.III), q.v.; the pyxidule; “pyxidula (obsol.) = pyxidium, Moench’s term for the fruit of Amaranthus, a dehiscent capsule, sometimes used for ‘pyxis,’[-idis (s.f.III), q.v.] (Jackson); “the pixidule or moss capsule” (Barton); cf. pyxidium;

[in the genus Jungermannia): “the capsule, or pyxidule, which is four-valved (pyxidula quadri-valvis)” (Bartram).

- Lichen pyxidatus albus gracillimus, pyxidulis multifidis, & altera alteri innata (Dill.,) a pyxidate lichen, white, extremely slender, with multifid pyxidulae [= pyxidia], and one growing up within the other. [= scyphus]

- [Coralloides scyphis humilibus, intus fuscis. The short footed Cup Coralloides] synonym of which = Lichenoides tubulosum, multum crustaceum, pyxidulis exiguis & omnium minimis (Dill.), Lichenoides tubulosum, much crustaceous, the pyxidules scanty and the smallest of all.

- also Lichen pyxidatus, pyxidulis minimis, multum crustaceus (Dill.), the pyxidate lichen, with the pyxidium very small, much crustaceous.

- Lichenoides cartilaginosum, tubulis & pyxidulis exiguis (Dill.), cartilaginous Lichenoides, with tubules and pyxidia scanty.