A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Semita,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. semita: footpath, path, pathway, lane, a narrow way; see path; see road;

“The Alta Semita ("High Path") was a street in ancient Rome that gave its name to one of the 14 regions of Augustan Rome. ... The great antiquity of the street is also suggested by semita, a Latin word usually meaning "footpath" and not used for any other Roman street” Wikipedia “alta semita” July 2019).

- semita glareosa, gravel footpath.

- nascitur in umbrosissimis udis (saepe in ipsa paene aqua) ad folia ramulosque putridos dejectos , rarius terrestris in semitis declivibus, it grows in the shadiest moist (places) (often almost in the very water) on leaves and fallen rotten branches, more rarely terrestrial on sloping footpaths.

- annuus videtur Muscus, frequens ad vias & semitas humidiores arenosas, præfertim in ericetis (Dill.), it seems an annual moss, frequent [i.e. common] on the wetter sandy roads and lanes, especially in Heather [i.e. Erica or moorland] associations.

- praesertim secus superiorem semitam ad pratum Lunae ducentem (Mich.), particularly along the upper path leading to the meadow of Luna [of the Moon (Luna)].

- in agris juxta semitas, Novembri mense (Mich.), in the fields beside the paths, in the November month.

- [Воtrуtis comata] per semitas secus magnum ambulacrum Regiae suburbanae villae, ad marcida, et semiputrida ligna, et tritici culmos, tempore brumali, non raro invenitur (Mich.), it is not rarely encountered along the paths along the great [shaded] walks of the Royal suburban villa, on withered and half rotted wood, also the culms of wheat, in the winter time [i.e. in wintery weather].

- In Ilicibus, tum in Regio viridario Boboli, tum in ampla semita villae Podii Imperialis perennat (Mich.), it lasts years on Ilexes, once in the Royal garden of Boboli, then again on the big path of the Imperial villa of Podium.

NOTE: the ‘big path’ may refer to a monumental tree-lined avenue [magnum ambulacrum] at the Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill), S of Florence.