A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Cervus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. cervo, gen.pl. cervorum: a stag, a deer; see deer; see Rangifer,-feri (s.m.II); see antler.

- corniferi cervi (pl.m.II), horn-bearing deer; also cornigeri,-orum (pl.m.II).

- Coralloides cornua Cervi referens, corniculis brevioribus (Tourne.) a Coralloides resembling the horns of a deer, with shorter corniculi.

- Fucus coronopi divisura. Alga cornu cervi divisura (Tourn.); Fucus with the divisions of Coronopus. An alga with the divisions with the horn [i.e. antler] of a deer.

- cornua cervi ramosa, the branched horns [i.e. antlers] of a stag.

- (algae) ramificationes maxime varias, cornu cervi formam nonnunquam aemulantes vidi in Hydrodictyi cellulis eremobiis, quarum alio loco mentionem feci (Braun), the branchings most variable, I have sometimes seen them suggesting the form of a deer’s horn in the eremobic cells of Hydrodictyon, of which I have made mention in another place.

NOTE: cervi are forked stakes, from the resemblance to the horns of a stag; antlers.

Cervus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. Cervo: “a genus (the type of the family Cervidae) formerly including all the deers but now limited to the larger forms (as the red deer and elk)” (WIII).

Cervidae fr. Cervus, type genus + -idae: a large family of ruminant mammals (order Artiodactyla) that are distinguished from the related Bovidae by possession of solid deciduous antlers and that include deer, elk, moose, and related forms” (WIII).

Corylus cervorum; Paragenipa cervorum.

- [Cladonia rangiferina; lichen] Inter muscos, supra terram et saxa, locis praesertim frigidioribus totius Europae, plagas latas saepe occupans, sed vulgo immixta cum varietate sylvatica; in regionibus borealibus maximam partem vegetationis totius copia sua sistit, estque Lichen omnium abundantissimus, notissimus, in zona Cervi Tarandi utilissimus. In terris cunctis telluris viget, ubi loca ei convenientia dantur; inde a regionibus extremis arcticis usque in antárcticas distribuitur (Nyl. 2), among mosses, upon earth and stones, above all in the colder places of the whole of Europe, often occupying broad tracts, but commonly mixed together with the variety sylvatica; in northern regions its own abundance represents the greates part of all the vegetation, and is the most abundant Lichen of all, the most well known, the most useful in the zone of Cervus Tarandus [L.]. It flourishes in all the regions of the Earth together, when it is given localities convenient to it; for which reason it is distributed from the extreme artic into antarcticas regions.