A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

pictus,-a,-um (part.A), in general: ‘illustrated;’ colored, painted, adorned with color, as though painted; “painted; brightly colored” (Stearn 1996) [> L. pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3., to represent pictorially with the pencil or needle, to paint, embroider; cf.depingo, delineo, adumbro]; to paint, stain, color; to adorn, embellish, decorate]; see fucatus,-a,-um (part.A);

As ‘painted’ = pictus: when colors are disposed in streaks of unequal intensity” (Lindley).

- Fig. 6. Peziza flammea: (a) magnitudine naturali; (b) sub lente a latere (c) desuper picta (S&A), Figure 6. Peziza flammea: a. in it natural size; 2. under the lens from the side; c. pictured [i.e. painted] from above.

- [fungus; a caption] Peziza porioides: (a) magnitudine nativa; aucta (b) integra (c) individuis aliquot exemtis, a latere pictis (S&A), (a)at natural magnification; enlarged (b) entire [i.e. whole] (c) with some individuals, drawn from the side.

- cum tabulis XII aeneis pictis, with 12 painted bronze [or copper] plates.

- sub lente a latere desuper picta, under the lens from the side drawn [looking down] from above.

- semine picto, with a decorated seed.

- vertices sphaerularum jucundo picti colore roseo versus rubrum vergente (S&A), the tops of the sphaerules pleasingly painted with a rose-colore verging toward the red.

- (algae) siccata sistit maculam veluti pictam, nitentem medio atro-viridem, peripheria vero radiantem filis pulcherrime viridibus, semi -1- uncialibus (Agardh), when dry it presents a blotch as if painted, shining, in the middle dark green, on the periphery truly radiating with threads a most beautiful green, [the threads] one half to one inch.

- Lichenoides nigro-flavum, tabulæ Geographicæ instar pictum. The yellow Mapp Lichemoides [colored like a geographic map] (Dill.).

- (algae) siccata sistit maculam veluti pictam plus minus dilute viridem, nitentem, versus marginem sensim evanescentem (Agardh), when dry it displays a blotch as if painted, more or less weakly green, shining, toward the margin gradually vanishing.

- Fig. 6. Peziza flammea: (a) magnitudine naturali; (b) sub lente a latere (c) desuper picta (S&A), Figure 6. Peziza flammea: a. in it natural size; 2. under the lens from the side; c. pictured [i.e. painted] from above.

- [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.

- (Fungus) P. cyathoidea. Cupula primum cyathoidea, dein planiuscula orbicularis subdiscoidea marginata, qualem pinxit b. Hedwig (S&A), the cupula at first cyathoid [i.e. cup-like], thereafter somewhat flat, orbicular, nearly discoid, bordered, of such a kind as Hedwig represented [i.e. by figure] [figure b.].

- [fungus] stipes breviusculus, robustus, albus, maculis guttatis pallentibus pictus (S&A), stipe rather short, robust, white, painted with pale beaded spots.

-[Cochlospermum Gregorii] bracteolae simul cum calyce flavescentes et stiolis punctisque laete rubris pictae (F.Muell.) the bracteoles together with the calyx yellowish and decorated with bright red streaks and dots.

Phalaris arundinacea var. picta L. may be similar to P. arundinacea fo. variegata, “with white-striped leaves, both native and horticultural, is the Ribbon-Grass of gardens” (Fernald 1950).

Suillus pictus (Pk.) Smith & Thiers, a mushroom with red hairs on the cap and yellow flesh bruising red;

Ixodes albipictus [painted or embellished with white], a kind of tick.

Chromolaena picta; Gaillardia picta; Ratibida picta

Eupatorium pictum; Hieracium pictum