A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

fucatus,-a,-um (part.A): painted, colored, stained [> L. fuco, fucavi, fucatum 1. to color, dye, stain; to tinge; to make ornate, to beautify with color, to paint, specifically with a red color; to rouge; to paint with cosmetics]; cf. pictus,-a,-um (part.A);

Hedwig(mosses) used this verb to highlight his colored illustrations in which the reddness of certain organs or parts was emphasized;

- [moss] vaginula, quae ipsius trunci summam partem constituit, globosa est, summo margine eleganter rubicundo colore fucato (Hedw.), the vaginula, which constitutes the summit [i.e. highest part] of the stem itself, is globose, the uppermost edge [i.e.margin] elegantly painted with a red color.

- [Dicranum varium] truncus iuvenilis inferne rotundatus, dilute cinnamomeo colore fucatus (Hedw), the juvenile [i.e. immature] stem rounded below, painted with a pale cinnamon color.

- theca prima aetate viridis, oblonga, mature profundiori rubro fucatur colore (Hedw.), the theca [at its initial age, i.e. at the beginning of its life cycle] green, oblong, with age stained more deeply red.

perfuco, perfucavi, perfucatum 1. Deeply colored, stained, tinged;

- STIGMA demum apertum et stylus, impraegnatione peracta, canalem deferentem eleganter rutilantem superius, inferius rubrum offerunt, qui color et summitatem ovarii perfucat, manifesto praegressi operis indicio (Hedwig), they reveal the stigma thereafter open, and the style, when the impregnation [i.e. fertilization] is completed, rendering the upper canal elegantly reddish-orange, the lower red, which thoroughly stains red the color of the summit of the ovary, with a clear token of the action brought forward.