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\vith knots of a white and blood-red colour : the use of it as 

 an amulet is avoided, as being apt to produce monstrosities. 



I>otryitis M is sometimes black and sometimes purple-red,* 1 

 and resembles a btineh of grapes 63 in form, when making its 

 first appearance. Zoroaster says, that bostry chilis'' 4 is a stone 

 which is more like the hair of females than anything else. 

 lJucardia* 5 resembles an ox-heart in appearance, and is only 

 found at Babylon. Brontea'* is a stone like the head of a 

 tortoise, which falls with thunder, it u supposed : if too, we 

 are to believe what is said, it has the property of quenching 

 the fire in objects that have been struck by lightning. Eolos 67 

 is the name of a stone found in Iberia, 06 similar to a clod of 

 earth in appearance. 



CHAP. 56. CADM1T1S. CALLAIS. CAPNITI8. CAITADOCIA. CAL- 

 LAICA. CATOCHITIS. CATOPTKITIS. CEPITIS OB CEPOLATITIS. 

 CERAMITIS. CIN-EDIA. CKIUTIS. ClliCOS. COKS01DES. CO- 

 HALLOACHATES. COKALLIS. CBATP.IUTIS. CROCALLIS. CYITIS. 

 CIIALCOrilONOS. CIIELIDOXIA. CUELONIA. CHELONITIS. CIILO- 

 KITIS. CnOASPITIS. CHIIYSOLAMPIS. CHRTSOPIS. CEPONIDES. 



Cadmitis differs only from the stone that is known as 

 ostracitis^ in being sometimes surrounded with blisters of an 

 azure colour. Callais 70 is like sapphiros 71 in colour, only 

 that it is paler and more closely resembles the tint of the 



1 " Grape-cluster stone." 



62 '* Puinceus" seems to be a preferable reading to '* pampineus," 

 " like a vine-tendril/' given by the Bamberg MS. 



** Possibly it may buve been Datbolite or Borate of lime, a vark-ty of 

 vliich is known as Botrvolite. 



61 "Hair-stone." Tl " -vas probably eitbcr Iron alum, known nlso us 

 Aluii de plume ; Alunogi mown also as Featber Alum or bair salt; or 

 Amianthus, also called sami Asbcstus. See B. xxxvi. c 31. 



* * Ox-hf-art." Supposed to be a sort o-f Turquois, Uurdouin says. 



w <4 Thunder-stone. 



C7 *' Clod-stone." It may possibly bave been a kind of Geodes. See 

 B. xxxvi. c. 32. Dalecbamps, however, identifies it witli Crnpaudine, 

 'J'oad-stone, or Bufor.ite, supposed in former times to be produced by the 

 toad, but in reality the fot>sil tooth of a fish. 



6? See B. iii. c. 4. 



69 See B. xxxiv. c. 22, and Chapter 65 of this Book. 

 " Identical, probably, with the Callaina of Chapter 33, our Turquois. 



71 Lapis lazuli. 



