A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Vulnus,-eris (s.n.III), abl.sg. vulnere, nom. & acc. pl. vulnera, also volnus,-eris (s.n.III): wound, injury, hurt, blow, damage; (of things) cut, notch, crack, hole; misfortune, disaster, blow, calamity; see wound;

- ex vulnere moriens, dying from a wound.

- vulnus (s.n.III) insanabile (adj.B), abl. sg. vulnere insanabili, an incurable wound or injury.

- tota herba vulnera glutinat (“Galen” in Everett), the whole plant glues together [i.e. agglutinates] wounds. - Sachsius pulvere ejus ad sanguinem e vulneribus effluentem compescendum Chirurgos uti tradit in Eph. Nat. Cur. Ann. 2. p. 92. (Dill.), Sachsius [the Surgeon] with a powder of it for the staunching of blood flowing from wounds as he said in the Eph. Nat. Cur. Ann. 2. P. 92.

NOTE: Paul Louis Sachsius, Doctor [Oxford Handbook of the Baroque, J. D. Lyon, ed.]

- [MARANTA arundinacea]. Anglis vulgo “Arrowroot.” Apud Indianos in usu esse fertur, contusa, videlicet vulneribus ex sagittis venenatis admota (Swartz), with the English commonly [called] “Arrowroot.” By the [West] Indians it is reported to be in use [i.e. their practise or custom], namely ground, applied to wounds from poisoned arrows.

- [Pisolithus; fungus] Cortice communi demum varie diffracto, peridiolisque vulneri accumbentibus simul etiam laesis, pulvis carcere suo liberatus longe lateque dispergitur (S&A), with the communal cortex [i.e. peridium] then shattered in different ways, and with the peridioles lying along beside it broken also, at the same time, by the injury, the powder freed from its own confines is dispersed far and wide.

- [Lichenoides pulmoneum] addunt alii vulnera, recentia potissimum, pulmonis glutinare & ad utrumque muliebre profluvium & dysenteriam conferre” (Dill.), others add more, ascribing it for closing wounds of the lung, [a wound] as recently acquired as possible, and for either female discharge and also dysentery.

(bacterium) Buchananella hordeovulneris, illness from injuries produced by awns of grasses of the genus Hordeum.