A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Tegumentum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. tegumento, nom. & acc. pl. tegumenta: indusium; tegument = integument, q.v.; the indusium of a fern; the spermoderm (Jackson); “the outer covering of scales on a leaf bud; one of these scales; the outer layer of a plate of a chiton” (WIII) [> L. tegumentum,-i (s.n.II) a cover or covering; a defence or protection]; cf. articulamentum,-i (s.n.II); cf. tegmen,-inis (s.n.III); tegmentum,-i (s.n.II);

- tegumento subvilloso albido, guttis grossis viscosis obsito, with a covering somewhat villous, whitish, covered with coarse sticky droplets.

- [Peziza] intus atra laevis , primo glaberrima lucida : extus vestita tegumento fusco - nigro firmo crassiusculo, inside black, smooth, at first quite smooth, lucid; outside clothed with a covering fuscous-black, firm, somewhat thick.

- (fungus) colore quidem omnium fere partium, habitu firmo curto, ac tegumento convexae pilei superficiei convenit cum praecedente (S&A), it certainly agrees with the preceding [species] by the color of all the parts, by the habit, firm, short [i.e. squat], and by the covering of the convex surface of the pileus.

- Gemmas appello Arborum & Fruticum foetus [nom.pl.] novellos, quos quotannis, ut dixi, aestate pariunt, squammosis tegumentis velut fecundis obvolutos, in quibus per totam 'hyemem latitant,adverfus aeris injurias securi (Ray), I call [i.e.designate] the young fetuses the ‘gemmae’ [i.e. ‘buds’] of trees and shrubs, which every year [i.e. annually], as I have said, they bring forth in summer, enveloped by scaley [i.e. ‘large-scaled] integuments just as if fertile, in which they lay secure [i.e. hidden] throughout the entire winter, safe from the adverse injuries of the air [i.e. atmosphere].

NOTE: (fungus) this word not in Ainsworth & Bisby.