A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

volens,-entis (part.B): wishing, wanting, willing; meaning, intending; “desiring the action, experience, etc., concerned, willing; (of things) according with one’s wishes, welcome” (Glare) [> L. volo, inf. velle, to wish (with pres. inf.), to want, wish (for), to desire to have; will, be resolved; to mean, intend, to want something to be the case; to imply, signify; to maintain, claim].

NOTE: vult: third-person singular present active indicative of volo (to wish, want);

- ramosus autem non est, ut Petiver vult, sed creberrime saltem filamentosus. (Dill.), it is not, however, branched, as Petiver intends it, so much as it is very densely filamentose.

- Nec enim fusco est colore, ut ille vult, nec faxis, ut idem habet, fed arboribus adnafcitur (Dill.), for it is not with a fuscous [i.e. grayish-brown] color, as this [i.e. this author] wants it, nor does it grow on stones, as he has it, but on trees.

- [Byssus petraea crocea, Saffron coloured Rock Byssus] Linnaeus tamen non a lapide, sed Bysso emanare odorem vult, & Byssum perennem pulverulentam rubram, lapidibus innascentem vocat (Dill.), Linnaeus, however, does not wish the odor to emanate from a stone, but from a Byssus, and he calls it the perennial, pulverulent red growing-on-stones Byssus.

- [Usnea vulgaris] per senium crusta albicante verrucosa exasperantur rami, & hanc crustam semina esse vult Michelius; verum cum tenaciter ramorum cortici adnascatur, ea sententia minus probabilis & senii potius effectus videtur. Junior tenuior est & crusta illa caret (Dill.), throughout old age the branches are roughened by a whitish crust, and this crust Michelius wants to be seeds; but when it tenaciously grows on the cortex of branches, this opinion is less probable and it seems rather an effect of old age. The younger is more delicate and it lacks that crust.

velīmus: first-person plural present active subjunctive of volō; we would wish, be resolved; we may, might intend;

- has ex eo, quod in praefamine exposuimus, instituto ad generis calcem subjectas ulteriori mycophilorum indagini commendatas velimus, these (species) according to that plan which we explained in the preface, we would wish subordinated to the end of the genus, entrusted to the further study of mycophiles [i.e. mycologists].