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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
Stillicidium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. stillicidio: a liquid which falls drop by drop, a dripping moisture, falling rain, rain-water, falling from the eaves of houses or the ledges of rocks (seep-water); “the slope of a rood (necessary to throw off the rain), drainage-fall” (Glare);

- stillicidi casus lapidem cavat, the occurrance of dripping hollows out stone.

- Hab. Andes Quitenses ad fl. Pastasa, in stillicidiis calidis, it grows in the Quitensian Andes at the Pastasa river, in hot seeps.

- [Marchantia capitulo non dissecto; the Marchantia with the capitulum not dissected] in aquarum stillicidiis ubique cirса Florentiam, & praesertim in Ripulensi planitie juxta molendina (Mich.)., in the drippings [i.e. seepage] of waters everywhere around Florence and especially on the Ripulensis plane beside milling-places.

- Аd Garza torrentis originem: in stillicidiis juxta Rovezzani molendina (Mich.), at the source of the torrent ‘Garza,’ in seepage [i.e. dripping moisture] among the mills of Rovezzano.

Hymenostylium stillicidiorum (Mitt.) Broth., a moss, ‘of dripping places;’ the lichen Lichen stillicidiorum (probably Calplaca stillicidiora should be corrected to C. stillicidiorum as the epithet appears to be a neuter noun in the genitive plural; Placodium cerinum var. stillicidiorum.

 

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