A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vagans,-antis (part.B), vagus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: wandering, ranging, roaming; wavering, unsteady; vague, capricious, flighty; uncertain, ill-defined, indeterminate, indistinct; “of wide distribution; wandering” (Stearn 1996); “strolling about, rambling, roving, roaming, wandering, unfixed, unsettled, vagran, MEANDERING; wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague, indefinite” (Lewis & Short) [> L. vago,-are, 1. to wander; vagor,-atus 1. To stroll about, go to and fro, to ramble, wander, roam, range, rove; syn. erro, palor; to wander about, roam, be unsettled, waver, spread abroad, diffuse itself, etc.]; see vagus,-a,-um (adj.A);

- mundivagans, mundivagant, wandering over the world, cosmopolitan; noctivagus,-a,-um (adj.A): night-wandering, that wanders about by night.

- species 5, unica in Asiam maxime boreali-orientalem vagans, species 5, a single one ranging into Asia, mostly north-eastern.

- [alga] rami ramlulique interdum vagi, saepius vero oppositi, & subverticillati, (Agardh), the branches and branchlets sometimes ill-defined, more often truly [i.e. without doubt] opposite and nearly verticillate.

Erica vagans L.; Cuscuta gronovii var. vulgi-vaga, ‘ranging everywhere.’