308 DOMAIN IV. TALCOUS. 



" The same, of a duller colour, and somewhat 

 more compacted, from Hungary. 



" In thin undulating laminae, of a dark greenish 

 grey colour, from Fahlun, in Sweden. 



" The same, more indurated, and of a shining 

 yellowish grey colour, from Zillerthal in the Tyrol. 



" The same, of a divergingly striated texture, 

 and dark grey colour, from Scotland. 



" Composed of small compacted scales (talcite) 

 of a white colour and silvery lustre, enclosing pris- 

 matic crystals of green quartz, from Dauphiny." 



Karsten, in his catalogue of Leske's museum, 

 has the following : 



" Perfectly apple green, mutably reflecting sil- 

 very white, talc, from the Venetian states. 



" Talc, reflecting from the apple green, slightly 

 into yellowish, from the same place. 



" Massive talc, of coarse and small granular dis- 

 tinct concretions ; and the same, indurated, which 

 is mixed with a large quantity of emery, from 

 Ochsenkopf, at Schwarzenburg, in the Erzgebirge. 

 " A fragment of a talc nodule, the fracture of 

 which is very slaty, from Tyrol." 



