A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

solutus,-a,-um (part.A): “completely separate from neighboring parts” (Lindley); dissolved, loosened, unbound; set free, not adherent, completely separate from adjacent parts; not carefully constructed, loose or loosened soil (terra soluta), breaking up, disappearing (opp. adnatus, etc.) [> L. solvo, solvere, solvi, solutum: to loosen: to untie, unbind, free, release; to release (from fetters, etc.), unyoke; to open; to release a thing from what holds it together; to dissolve, break up; to break up, weaken, to bring to an end]; cf. fatiscens,-entis (part.B), disintegrating;

solvi: present passive infinitive, to be broken up;

- [alga] Ex analogia cum Oscillatoria annulos interiores frondis in sporas transformari vel in sporidia solvi, credere fas est (Agardh), from analogy [i.e. based on similarities] with Oscillatoria, it is allowed [i.e. there is every reason] to believe that the interior rings of the frond are transformed into spores or separated into sporidia.

solvitur, ed. pers. sg., pass. indic. pres. [he,she] it is loosened, released, unbound, dissolved, disintegrated; melted, as of snow;

- capsula ante maturitatem carnosula fere globosa vel obscure didyma, matura tamen in coccos 2-valves solvitur, capsule before maturity somewhat fleshy almost globose or obscurely two-lobed, mature [sc. capsule] for all that (nevertheless, however, yet) into 2-valved mericarps broken up.

solutus,-a,-um:

- [fungi] initio stipiti circumcirca adnatus, dein solutus (S&A), in the beginning adnate all around to the stipe, then freed.

- specimina quae in foliis Pteridis humi prostratis obtectis a nive vixdum soluta putrefactis semel legimus; ineunte Aprili (S&A), specimens which we collected one time, on the putrefied leaves of Pteris [a fern] prostrate on the ground covered by scarcely melted snow; at the onset of April.

- granulae iodo soluto madefactae vulgo colorem caeruleum ducentes, granules wih dissolved iodine moistened commonly a blue color producing (Stearn).

- costa supra medium folii soluta, costa above the middle of the leaf disappearing.

- frons bis terque furcata, furcis apicibus tantum solutis, the frond twice and thrice furcate, with the forks with only the apices loose.

- bracteis profundius solutis (B&H), with bracts more deeply separated.

- involucri bracteae aequales, liberae vel mox solutae (B&H), bracts of the involucre equal, free or soon separated.

- pyrenis 2-5 osseis liberis v. connatis v. ab axi centrali persistente solutis, with pyrenes 2-5 boney free or connate or set free from the persisting central axis.

- styli 3, inaequilongi, primum agglutinati, demum soluti (B&H), styles 3, of unequal lengths, at first adhering then set free.

- gelatina in globulos indurascente, nec in farinam illico soluta (S&A), the gelatine hardening into globules, not immediately breaking up into a dust [i.e. a meal or flour].

- calyx exterior ex apice in valvas duas irregulariter rumpens porro circum basin ruptus, nec regulariter secus ullam suturam longitudinalem solutus (F. Mueller), the outer calyx irregularly rupturing from the apex into two valves, breaking apart to a distance around the base, not regularly separated along any suture along the length.

- [fungus] peridii cortex duplex est, cinereus uterque: exterior prorsus ut in Physaro squamuloso, in squamas luculentas majusculas mox solutus, interior diutius integer (S&A), the cortex of the peridium is double, each one grayish-white: the outer, entirely as in Physarum squamulosum, soon separated into rather large, bright scales, the inner [remains] entire longer [i.e. for a longer time].

- sepala ante anthesin coalita, per anthesin valvatim soluta (B&H), sepals before anthesis [i.e. before flowering] fused [i.e. grown together, throughout anthesis by valves set free [from neighboring parts).