From Latin <span class="searchmatch">hortus</span> (“garden”) + <span class="searchmatch">siccus</span> (“dry”). <span class="searchmatch">hortus</span> <span class="searchmatch">siccus</span> A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium...
I have begun collecting, and though the season is far advanced, my <span class="searchmatch">hortus</span> <span class="searchmatch">siccus</span> boasts of several elegant specimens of fern; the yellow Canadian violet...