A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

nascens,-entis (part. B): arising, beginning; beginning to exist; nascent, infant, immature; “undergoing the process of being born; beginning to exist” (WIII) [> L. nascor, natus, nasci, 3, deponent verb: to be born, to be begotten + ex, de and abl. or with only abl.; “to rise, take beginning, derive origin, spring forth, grow, be found; to arise, spring forth, proceed from, be produced” (Lewis & Short)];

adnascens,-entis (part.B): adnascent, growing to or upon;

innascens,-entis (part.B): bring born in or on, growing up or spring up [in or on][> L. innascor, innatus sum, 3. deponent, to be born in, to grow on or spring up in a place].

- porro ex altero Orbe evocavi, quantum potui, Muscos ibi nascentes, & obtigere mihi plures fasciculi e Virginia & Pensylvania (Dill.), in addition [i.e. furthermore], I have elicited from the other [i.e. New-] world, as much as I could, the mosses originating there, and to have obtained for myself many fascicles [i.e. bundles] from Virginia and Pensylvania.

- Dillenius, Johann Jakob (1687-1747 Catalogus Plantarum circa Gissam sponte nascentium [=gen.pl.] (1718), Catalogue of Plants Originating [i.e. growing] Naturally around Giessen.

- frons apice saepe 4-6 ramulos nascentes gerens (Steph.), frond bearing 4-6 branchlets arising [i.e. beginning] at the apex.

- bracteae in spica nascente interdum distiche imbricatae (B&H), the bracts in a very young spike sometimes distichously imbricate.

- flores ante folia v. cum foliis novellis nascentes, ad nodos defoliatos solitarii v. subfasciculati (B&H), flowers arising before the leaves or with the young leaves, solitary or somewhat in fascicles at the defoliated nodes.

- ramis crassis vix patentibus, nascentibus copióse foliatis (F. Mueller), with the branches thick, scarcely spreading,the nascent ones copiosely leafy.

- [GENUS IX] Spongia. Eponge [=French, ‘sponge’] Spongia est plantae genus in aquis nascens, molle, & formainibus pervium (Tourn), Spongia is a kind of plant arising in water, soft [note neuter modifies ‘genus’] and perforated with openings.

nasci: present active infinitive: to begin, to arise, to be born.

- dicit odorem cordi familiarem ac gratum esse: in petrosis Suditorum superciliis nasci (Dill.), he reports the odor to be familiar to the spirit [i.e. heart] and pleasing: to arise on the rocky ridges of the Sudetes Mts.

nascitur: third-person singular present active indicative; [he/she] it arises, begins, is born, is begotten;

- nascitur inter folia putrida etc. in sylvis mixtis, apprime montosis, hinc illinc; Septembri et seqq. in Decembrem usque (S&A), it arises here and there among rotted leaves etc. in mixed woods, expecially montain; in September and the following [sc. months] up to December.

- Scinum nascitur in Africa et in India, optimum tamen habetur Arabicum (Galen in Everett), Scinum(= Cymbogopon schoenanthus Spreng.) grows in Africa and in India, but the best is considered to be the Arabic.

- glomerulis oblongis & rotundis, majoribus & minoribus, promiscue solo humido nascitur (Dill.), with glomerules oblong and round, larger and smaller, it grows everywhere on moist soil.

- nascitur locis arenosis, in Virginia, unde Bobartus a Bannistero & ego a Jo. Mitchellio nuper habui cum capsulis (Dill.), it arises in sandy places, in Virginia, from which place Bobartus had it from Bannister [sic], and recently I myself from Jo. Mitchell, with capsules.

- nascitur hac elegans, & rara planta in quadam valle Gargani Арuliae montis inter vepres, & senticosa loca (Mich.), this elegant and rare plant grows in a certain [i.e. unspecified] valley of Mount Gargano of Apulia (Italy) among bramble-bushes and thorn-thicket places.

- Per areolas floccosve minores nascitur, his vero dein subsidentibus, late lignis vetustis putrescentibus, unde enascitur, superinducitur, & hanc ob causam herpeti comparavit Doody (Dill.), it orignates [i.e.starts out] through minor areolae [i.e. small areas] or flocks [i.e. cottony tufts], however with these sinking in, extensively in old, putrescent woods, from there it springs up [i.e. emerges], covering over [i.e. the wood], and for this reason Doody compared it to herpes.

John Banister (1649 or 1650–1692); Mitchell, John (1711-1768), Virginia (colony) naturalists/botanists.

nascuntur: third-person plural present active indicative: they are borne, arise;

- (moss) [Ordo: Musci Frondosi] Fructus: theca unilocularis (Sporangium) calyptra tecta. Sporangium e partibus tribus essentialibus compositum: Pars I centralis s. columella (plus minusve perfecta); pars II s. sporangidium, in quo semina nascuntur; pars III s. epidermis (C. Mueller), the fruit: a unilocular theca (the Sporangium), covered by a calyptra. The sporangium is composed of three fundamental parts: Part I central [part] or [s. = seu] the columella (more or less perfect); part II or the sporangidium, in which the seeds [i.e. the spores] arise; part III or the epidermis.

Nascent tissue, meristematic tissue: see meristem.

Nascentia,-ium (pl.n.III), dat. & abl. pl. nascentibus: “organic bodies, esp. plants” (Lewis & Short).