A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Meta,-ae (s.f.I): “any mark at a boundary or limit, esp. the conical columns set in the ground at each end of the Roman Circus, the goal, turning-point; in the shape of a cone; an end, period, extremity, boundary limit; a turning-point in one’s course; of any thing resembling in shape the meta of the Circus: any thing of a conical or pyramidal form, a cone, pyramid (as of a concical hill) such as ricks, haycocks, hay-stacks, of cheeses, of a conical stone on a fountain” (after Lewis & Short); see cone (solid figure) (3);

- Boletus esculentus; fungus] in metam fastigiatus (Mich.), drawn out [i.e. pointed] into a cone.

- [Boletus esculentus; fungus] fungus porosus in longitudinem meta instar excrescens (Mich.), a fungus porose in length growing out like a [pyramidal] cone.

- fungus fatuus, candidus pileolo in metam assurgente. Fungi stultorum Boleto similis, perniciosi, genus noxiorum Fungorum (Tourne.), a tasteless fungus, shining white, the [little pileus] rising up into a cone. The fungi of the foolish, resembling a Bolete [i.e. an edible Bolete], most fatal, a sort of harmful fungi.