A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

inanis,-e (adj.B): inane, empty, containing nothing, vacant; useless, worthless; petty; “empty, not containing anything; or merely filled with a loose spongy substance” (Lindley); “empty, void; as an anther containing no pollen” (Jackson); cf. vacuus,-a,-um (adj.A): empty, void, vacant; opp. repletus,-a,-um (part.A), filled; filled full; farctus,-a,-um (part.A), q.v., filled full, stuffed; opp. full, q.v.; see empty;

NOTE: C. Muell. (Synopsis Musc. Frond. 1846) for Sphagnum cells inanes, lacking spiral threads, and repletae, spiral threads present.

- cellulae superiores inanes, subrhomboideae, upper cells empty, subrhomboid.

- sphaerulae arcte gregariae, hinc inde coacervatae, partim inanes nobis conspectae, partim muco spermatophoro scatentes (S&A), sphaerules tightly gregarious, here and there massed together, [those] observed by us partly empty, partly abounding in a spore [i.e. seed]-bearing mucus.

- [fungus] sphaerulae, quas inanes vidimus, globosae fere , contiguae, in series longiores brevioresve rectilineas intra rimas ligni dispositae, laeves nec cirrhosae, totae immersae (S&A), the sphaerules that we saw empty, almost globose, contiguous, deposited in longer or shorter rectilinear rows within the cracks of wood, smooth or cirrhose, the whole immersed.

- (moss) folia e cellulis basi utrinque densissime areolatis, ductibus heteromorphis angustissimis inanibus interpositis, medio basis laxioribus ductibus subhomomorphis, omnibus longis, apicem versus brevioribus amplioribus valde serpentinis inanibus vel raro ex parte subrepletis (Mueller), at the base on both sides very densely areolate, intermixed with heteromorphic guide-cells very narrow, empty, in the middle of the base more lax, with the guide-cells nearly of the same shape, all of them long, toward the apex shorter, bigger, strongly serpentine, empty or rarely in part somewhat filled up.

- [fungus] Sphaeria strigosa: (a) juxta naturam picta aucta (d) junior barba incolumi (b) adulta setis semifractis(c) verticaliter secta, inanis (S&A), a) illustrated enlarged near to nature d) younger with beard intact (b) mature with the setae half-broken (c) cut vertically, empty.

- (moss) folia e cellulis basi utrinque densissime areolatis, ductibus heteromorphis angustissimis inanibus interpositis, medio basis laxioribus ductibus subhomomorphis, omnibus longis, apicem versus brevioribus amplioribus valde serpentinis inanibus vel raro ex parte subrepletis composita (Mueller), leaves composed of cells at the base on both sides very densely areolate, intermixed with heteromorphic guide-cells very narrow, empty, in the middle of the base more lax, with the guide-cells nearly of the same shape, all of them long, toward the apex shorter, bigger, strongly serpentine, empty or rarely in part somewhat filled up.