A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Herbularis,-is (s.m./f. III), abl.sg. herbulare, nom.& acc. pl. herbulares: in British Medieval Latin a ‘herbula,-ae (s.f.I) was a ‘small herb’ or plant (Howlett). ‘Herbularis’ is formulated like an adj.B., and perhaps the modified noun may be ‘hortus,’ hence the gender = masc. In medieval monastic ‘physic’ or medical gardens, the ‘hortus’ was “used mostly for vegetables” (Wikipedia). The physic garden = the ‘herbularis or hortus medicus,’ the whole often adjoined by an orchard (viridarium)’ (Wikipedia, physic garden 2019); the botanic garden of a monastery included “not only a general garden or ‘hortus’ but also a separate physic garden or herbularis next to the infirmary and to the physician’s house (the word herb comes from the Latin ‘herba,’ a green crop or grass” (Oxfd. Illus. Companion to Med.); see garden; see hortus,-i (s.m.II).

Hortus pharmaceuticus, abl.sg. horto pharmaceutico: a physic garden, a medical garden.

- Hepatica angulosa in h. pharm. Par. culta (DeCandolle), cultivated at one time in the pharmacological [pharmaceuticus] garden [hortus] [i.e. physic garden] of Paris.