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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
Vivarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. vivario: a 'living collection' as of algae; an enclosure in which game, fish, etc. are kept alive; a park, warren, preserve, fish-pond (Lewis & Short), 'preserve' (Pliny), park, q.v.; “an enclosure, container, or structure adapted or prepared for keeping animals under seminatural conditions for observation or study or as pets; an aquarium or terrarium” (on-line Dictionary Feb. 2019); “often a portion of the ecosystem for a particular species is simulated on a smaller scale, with controls for environmental conditions” (Wikipedia Feb. 2019); see viridarium,-ii (s.n.II);.

- ostrearum vivaria, shellfish ponds, oyster ponds.

- typus in vivario Cantabrigiensi depositus, type deposited in the living collection at Cambridge.

- in Vivario, Gattley Park dicto, repertum ex Herefordiensi Comitatu misit Littl. Brown. (Dill.), in the vivarium, called Gattley Park, found from the County Hereford, Littl. Brown sent it.

- in Vivariis Nob.Wyndham & Horner in eodem Comitatu a S. Brewer: (Dill.), in the [animal] enclosures of Nob. Wyndham and Horner in the same County from S. Brewer.

- Littl. Brown vivarii Croft-Park palis vetustis in Herefordia adnasci vidit, (Dill.), Littl. Brown saw it growing on the old stakes of the vivarium, Croft-Park in Herford.

- In Viridario Boboli paulo ante Vivarium, vulgo del Forcone, Julio mense ad Ilices se observasse scribit Auctor. (Dill.), the author writes to have observed it himself in the Viridarium [Garden] of Boboli somewhat before the Vivarium, commonly [i.e. named] del Forcone [i.e. the (pitch) fork, in reference to the trident of the statue of Neptune], in the month of July on Ilexes. NOTE: Fontana del Forcone [a broad pond with a central “shoal” upon which stands a statue of Neptune” [Guide to Florence].

Phacelia buell-vivariensis N. D. Atwood is named for Buell Park, the type locality.

 

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