A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

limaceus,-a,-um (adj.A): limaceous, characteristic of or pertaining to a slug or snail; with a surface resembling the body of a snail (perhaps the Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum), covered with raised areolae; cf. testudinatus,-a,-um (adj.A), with the raised areolae of the shell of a tortoise [> L. limax, gen.sg.-acis (s.f.III), q.v., slug, snail];

NOTE: the garden snail, Cornu aspersum, lit. ‘spotted horn,’ has a body covered with raised areolae.

- fungus parvus, totus viridis, & ad aureum nоnnihil tendens, ac limacino glutine oblitus, pileolo extinctorii forma, pediculo fistuloso (Mich.), a small fungus, the whole green, and somewhat tending to golden, and covered over with a slug-like mucous, with the pileole in the shape of a [candle] extinguisher, with a fistulose [i.e. tubulose with one end closed] pedicel.

- fungus parvus, capitulo conico, desuper luteo, & limacino glutine ad modum splendens, lamellis, & fistuloso pediculo albis (Mich.), a small fungus with a conic little head, yellow from on top downwards, and with slug-like mucus much gleaming, with the lamellae and the fistulose [i.e. hollow with a closed end] pedicel white.

- fungus esculentus, parvus, pileolo pulvinato, albo, & limacino glutine infecto, lamellis murinis, pediculo pariter albo, gemino, & perаngusto anulo [sic] cincto (Mich.), an edible fungus, small, with a pulvinate [i.e. cushion-shaped, elevated in the middle], white pileolus and contaminated with a snail [slug]-like mucilage, with the lamellae mouse-colored [i.e. pale brownish-gray], with the pedicele uniformly white, paired, and encircled with a very narrow annulus.