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4. Milk-white (lacteus ; in words compounded of Greek, galacto-') ; dull white 

 verging to blue. 



5. Chalk- white (cretaceus, cakareus, gypseus) ; very dull white, with a little touch 

 of grey. 



6. Silvery (argenteus) ; a little changing to bluish grey, with something of a 

 metallic lustre. 



7. Whitish (albidus); any kind of white a little soiled. 



8. Turning white (albescens); changing to a whitish cast from some other 

 colour. 



9. Whitened (dealbatus) ; slightly covered with white upon a darker ground. 



II. Grey. 



10. Ash-grey (cinereus; in words compounded of Greek, tephro- and spodo-) ; a 

 mixture of pure white and pure black, so as to form an intermediate tint. 



11. Ash-greyish (cineraceus)\ the same, but whiter. 



12. Pearl-grey (griseus); pure grey, a little verging to blue. 



1 3. Slate-grey (schistaceus) ; grey, bordering on blue. 



14. Lead-coloured (plumbeus) ; the same, with a little metallic lustre. 



15. Smoky (fumeus,fumosus); grey, changing to brown. 



16. Mouse-coloured (murinus)', grey, with a touch of red. 



17. Hoary (canus, or incanus) ; a greyish whiteness, caused by hairs overlying 

 a green surface. 



18. Rather hoary (canescens)', a variety of the last. 



III. Black. 



19. Pure black (ater ; hi Greek composition, mela- or melano-), is black without 

 the mixture of any other colour. Atratus and nigritus ; when a portion 

 only of something is black ; as the point of the glumes of Carex. 



20. Black (niger) ; a little tinged wih grey. A variety is nigrescens. 



21. Coal-black (anthracinus) ; a little verging upon blue. 



22. Raven-black (coracinus, pullus) ; black, with a strong lustre. 



23. Pitch-black (piceus) ; black, changing to brown. From this can scarcely be 

 distinguished brown black (memnonius). 



IV. Brown. 



24. Chestnut-brown (badius) ; dull brown, a little tinged with red. 



25. Brown (fuscus ; in Greek composition, phceo-) ; brown, tinged with greyish 

 or blackish. 



26. Deep-brown (brunneus)', a pure dull brown. Umber-brown (umbrinus) is 



nearly the same. 



27. Bright brown (spadiceus) ; pure and very clear brown. 



28. Rusty (ferrugineus) ; light brown, with a little mixture of red. 



29. Cinnamon (cinnamomeus) ; bright brown, mixed with yellow and red. 



30. Red-brown (porphyreus) ; brown, mixed with red. 



31. Rufous (rufus, rufescens) ; rather redder than the last. 



32. f Gflandaceus ; like the last, but yellower. 



