152 . III. DIST. CHAR. Substance.^ 



that the salt has merely formed the matrix, not the 

 substance, of the extraneous body. 



TERMS, 



distinguishing the reliquium, according to its 



substance. 



a.) 108. MINERALIZED (reliquium miner alisatum) 

 with the organic form more or less perfectly 

 combined with mineral matter. All petrified 

 reliquia are mineralized : among the conser- 

 vated., only those which are impregnated (im- 

 J)uta) can properly be said to be so, as the 

 constituent matter of the converted (con- 

 versa), &c. though changed from its original 

 state, is still an organic, and not a mineral 

 substance, (v. p. 66. note, p. 52, and p. 

 135.) 



107. Earthy (terrenum) mineralized by an 

 earthy substance ( 102 ) in a loose or uncon- 

 solidated state. 



108. Stony (lapideum ) mineralized by an earthy 

 substance (102) in a firm or consolidated 

 state. An earthy or stony reliquium may be 



109. Calcareous (calcareum), 



1 10. Siliceous (siliceum), &c. &c. according 

 to the nature of its mineral substance, (v. 

 102.) 



