A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vernal (Engl.adj.), pertaining to spring, spring-flowering; “appearing or occurring in the spring (as floras, germination, reproduction and diseases); of, relating to, or characteristic of the spring; springlike, resembling or suggesting the spring of the year, esp. in freshness, gentleness, or newness” (after WIII): pertaining to spring, spring-flowering: vernalis,-e (adj.B), vernus,-a,-um (adj.A);

vernant (Eng.adj.): “(obsol.) vernal [ > L. vernans,, vernare, to flourish, be verdant, from ver, ‘spring’” (WIII).

- [lichen] in trunco putredine paene consumto abietino (semel etiam alneo?) in sylvis opacis passim invenimus fungum vernalem (S&A), we have found widespread the spring-time fungus on the rotted almost consumed trunk of a fir-tree (once also on alder?) in dark forests.

- [fungus] utraque var. vernalis: vigens Martio et Aprili, exoleta Maio (S&A), each [of the two] varieties vernal; vigorous in the March and April [sc. months], full grown in the May [month].

- [fungi] exempla saepe vernalia vidimus gelatina, nunc fluxili, nunc in glebam ceream coagulata(S&A), we have often seen vernal [i.e. spring-time] specimens with a gelatine, sometimes fluxile, sometimes coagulated into a waxen clump.

Arenaria verna; Barbarea verna, flowering in late March to May.