A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Seminarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. seminario: nursery, seed-plot, seed-bed; (as seminary, Eng.noun): “archaic: a plot where plants for transplantation are raised from seed” (WIII); see bed-log [> L. neuter of adj. seminarius,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.]; see garden;

- Typus: 5C11, per Hong ex aqua irrigua apud seminarium ornamentale in Reipublica Virginiae, USA, isolatus, type 5C11, by Hong isolated from irrigation water from an ornamental nursery in the State of Virginia (USA).

- seminarium (s.n.II) ornamentale, ornamental nursery.

Seminary (Eng.noun), seminary, school for training clergy” (Stelten); “an institution of secondary or higher education; specif., an academy for girls; a Roman Catholic institution preparing young men for diocesan priesthood or for membership in a religious order” (WIII);

- [fungi] Nonnisi semel hucusque invenimus speciem rarissimam cellarem, lignis pineis artifactis vetustis putrescentibus increscentem (in cella Seminarii). Januario (S&A); up to now, we have found only once the very rare cellar species, growing inside on old manufactured pine wood (in the cellar of a nursery). In January.

NOTE: the fact that the ‘S’ in ‘seminarius’ is capitalized may indicate this is a religious institution;

- in lignis pineis vetustis (cellae Seminarii) Januario, on old pine wood (of the cellar of a [nursery, Seminary] in January.

- St. Francis of Assisi: “Laurentius a Brundusio, Opera omnia, vol. 9, Sanctorale” (Padua: Officina typographica seminarii, 1944); Padua: the typographical workshop of the seminary.

- bis inventus fungus notabilis: prima vice cellaris in lignis pineis vetustis (cellae Seminarii) Januario, secunda in iisdem sub dio degentibus, sed loco suffocato ad basin sepium putridarum (prope aedem Rengersdorfensem) Novembri; a notable fungus twice encountered, the first time in old, cellar pine wood (of a storeroom of a nursery) in January, the second in the same places living under the open sky, in an airless place at the base of rotten fences (near a house at Rengersdorf) in November.