MODE XIV. CALCAREOUS GLUTENITE. 



white ; that called arlequzno, which on a pale yel- 

 low, presents many fragments of various colours, 

 resembling the beautiful bricia of Aix, but with 

 more splendour; the chocolate brown, with little 

 angular fragments of white ; and the white with 

 red fragments. What is called the grand antique, 

 is composed of large fragments of black in a white 

 cement*. The French apply the name, violet, to Violet. 

 a bricia, which, on a ground of pale brown, pre- 

 sents fragments of lilac and of white. One of the 

 violet bricias, described by Brard, is of a yellowish 

 green ; and presents white, green, violet, red, and 

 orange spots : but our author does not seem care- 

 fully to distinguish between Italian bricias, which 

 are often merely spotted, and the real bricias, 

 which are composed of fragments. 



Among the bricias of modern Italy, may be Modem. 

 mentioned what the French also call violet-bricia, 

 being merely of a reddish brown, with white veins; 

 that of Brentonico with large yellow, grey, and Italy. 

 rose spots ; that of Bergamo, of black and grey in 

 a greenish cement ; and that of Alcamo, in Sicily, 

 of a bright grey with rose spots. The territories 

 of Verona and Trent yield a beautiful bricia of 

 pale red, crimson, and bluish fragments in a red 

 cement. Spain boasts the bricia of Riela, in Ar- Spain. 



* Brard, 340. 



