A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Lorum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. loro, nom. & acc. pl. lora: a thong, i.e. a narrow strip of material, such as leather, with parallel margins, often used as a fastening; (in general) leather; in plural: lora,-orum, the reins of a bridle; a whip, lash, scourge; the girdle of Venus; a slender vine-branch (Lewis & Short); also used in reference to a strap-shaped thallus in lichens; see lorlulum,-i (s.n.II

NOTE: the ‘lorum’ may suggest a cord, string, strap, strip, band.

- [lichen] Usnea barbata, loris tenuibus fibrosis. The Beard Usnea (Dill.), Usnea barbata, with thin, fibrous [thallus-]strips; = Lichen barbatus. A lichen with the thallus elongate, pendulous, sparingly branched, the branches long divergent simplish, with short, patent crowded fibrillae, hence the epithet ‘bearded.’ The lora are the thallus strips.

- [Conferva; filamentous alga] ceterum colore rubiginoso & filamentis istis seu loris tomentosis facile ab aliis distingui potest haec species (Dill.), otherwise this species is easily distinguished from the others by the rubiginose color and those filaments or lora [i.e. the thallus in strips], tomentose.

- Usnea vulgaris, loris longis implexis. “Stringy Tree-Moss.” Quos vero villos vocat J. Bauhinus, fila sunt satis, crassa, invicem implexa & involuta (Dill.), Usnea vulgaris, with the [straps] long, intertangled. “The stringy tree-moss.” Those things which J. Bauhin calls villi [i.e. long, weak hairs] are really fibers, this way and that interlaced and intricate.

- Usnea loris longis dichotomis, extremitatibus tenuioribus. “Micheli’s wide forked Usnea, with finer Points” (Dill.), Usnea with the lora [i.e. strap-shaped thalli] long, dichotomous, thinner at the extremities [i.e. the points or ends].

Usnea loris longis dichotomis, extremitatibus crassioribus. “Micheli’s wide forked Usnea with thicker Points” (Dill.), the Usnea with the lora [i.e. strap-shaped thalli] dichotomous, with thicker extremities.