Botany N. botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography^, phytology^, phytotomy^; vegetable physiology, herborization^, dendrology, mycology, fungology^, algology^; flora, romona; botanic garden &c (garden) 371 [Obs.]; hortus siccus [Lat.], herbarium, herbal. botanist &c; herbist^, herbarist^, herbalist, herborist^, herbarian^. V. botanize, herborize^. Adj. botanical &c n.; botanic^. 370.

And then to hear of such consummations as panis siccus, dry bread; or, (if the learned reader thinks it will taste better in Greek,)

"Or again, 'siccum pro biscodo, ut hodie vocamus, sumemus?'"It is odd enough that a scholar so complete as Salmasius, whom nothing ever escapes, should have overlooked so obvious an alternative as that of siccus, meaning without opsoniumScoticè, without "kitchen."

' The ex-minister went to a great expense in the cultivation of plants, bought Uvedale's 'Hortus Siccus;' and received from Bradley, the Professor of Botany at Cambridge, the tribute of a dedication, in which it was said that 'Sir Robert had purchased one of the finest collections of plants in the kingdom.'

calidus et siccus, frigidus et siccus, paludinosus, crassus. 1511.

calidus et siccus, frigidus et siccus, paludinosus, crassus. 1511.

Lien frigidus et siccus c. 13.

The floral outfit of pastoral poets, when Crabbe began to write, was a hortus siccus indeed.

But, somehow or other, it always seemed as if all the sharp and brilliant things he said were poured out of so many vials filled and labelled for the particular occasion; it struck us, to use a figure, as if his mind were an ample and well-arranged hortus siccus, from which you might have specimens of every kind of plant, but all of them cut and dried for store.

I ran from auction to auction, became a critick in shells and fossils, bought a Hortus siccus of inestimable value, and purchased a secret art of preserving insects, which made my collection the envy of the other philosophers.

Indeed, I find a difficulty in procuring a hortus siccus.

A choice of old authors should be a florilegium, and not a botanist's hortus siccus, to which grasses are as important as the single shy blossom of a summer.

They made a joint hortus siccus under his instruction.