A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

valgus,-a,-um (adj.A): to turn awry, twist; “having the calves of the legs bent outwards, bow-legged (Lewis & Short).

valgiter (adv.): awry, wryly.

Eng. adj. ‘awry,’ askew, out of the normal or correct position or expected course; in a turned or twisted position, crooked, asymmetrical, to one side, off-center, skewed, misaligned; (of necks) turned to or on one side.

- [Usnea dichotoma compressa] exemplaria hujus inter Muscos G. Sherardi, Bobarti & proprios sunt dodrantalia & pedalia, cauliculis compreffis, aliquouque indivisis, inde brevibus intervallis in binos (rarius ternos) ramos tenuiores compressos valgiter divisis & subdivisis (Dill.), specimens of this, among the [personal] mosses [of G. Sherard, Bobart], are nine inches and one foot [long], with the little (or secondary) stems compressed, and to some extent undivided, from that point in short intervals into pairs ([more rarely a set of three) thinner, compressed branches [unevenly, asymmetrically, crookedly] divided and subdivided.