It’s time to be brave and get to grips with translating. Below are exercises, with answers starting on p. 75. These are also useful if you are running a course in botanical Latin.

In exercises where several Latin words are available and correct, we give just one. The vital point is that the word you choose has the correct ending, in case, gender and number.

Where necessary, consult the Vocabulary for the declension and gender of a noun and for the group of an adjective. Don’t guess. One example that comes to mind – and we have seen this several times – is the word folia (Second Declension nominative or accusative neuter plural), which looks like a First Declension nominative feminine singular noun, and then errors such as foliae and folias suddenly appear in the description!

A few compound adjectives are listed in the Vocabulary, but others you will have to construct.

You may find it useful to revise the relevant section in the grammar before doing these.