BOOK I 



of opals; sardonyx, its kinds, its blemishes ; onyx, its 

 kinds ; carbuncles, their 12 kinds, their blemishes and 

 tests ; coal-carbuncle ; sandastros or Garamantitis or 

 sandacitis ; sandaresus ; lychnis, its 4 kinds ; Cartha- 

 ginian stone. (xxxi-xl) Carnelian, its 5 kinds ; chry- 

 solite, its 2 kinds ; turquoise ; leek-green stone, its 3 

 kinds ; Nile-stone ; malachite ; jasper, its 4 kinds, their 

 blemishes; lapislazuh,itskinds; sapphire ; amethyst, 

 its 4 kinds ; socondion, sapenos, pharanitis, Venus's 

 eyelid or love-returned or lad's-love. (xli-1) Hya- 

 cinth; chrysolite, its 7 kinds ; golden-amber ; chry- 

 solite, its 4 kinds ; golden chrysolite ; xuthis ; lad's-love 

 or sangenos or tenites; cat's-eye; adularia, astriotes, 

 astolon. (h-lx) St. John's bread, its 4 kinds ; bae- 

 tylos ; rainbow-stone ; holy-stone ; agates,their kinds ; 

 crystalline quartz, drugs therefrom ; alabaster-stone, 

 drugs therefrom ; cock-stones, androdamas, silver- 

 stone, charm-coral, chalcedony, scented amber, 

 asbestos-stone, aspisatis, atizoe, turquoise, amphi- 

 danes or chrysocoUa, Aphrodisiaca, apsyctos, little- 

 gypsy ; acorn-stone, frog-stone, baptes, cat's eye, 

 Belus, baroptenus or baripe, grape-stone, lock-of- 

 hair-stone, cow's-heart, thunder-stone, boloe, cad- 

 mitis, turquoise, smoke-stone, Cappadocian stone, 

 turquoise-stone, catochitis, catoptritis, cepitis or 

 cepolatitis, brick-stone, cinaedias (Idnds of), wax- 

 stone, top-stone, hair-stone, coral-agate, coral-stone, 

 crateritis, crocallis, cyitis, brazen-voice, swallow- 

 stones, tortoise-stones, tortoise-shell-stone, green- 

 stone, Choaspes-stone, gold-gleam, golden-topaz, 

 cepionides, Daphne-stone, diadochos, diphyes, 

 Dionysus-stone, snake-stone, heart-stone or enariste, 

 enorchis, exhebenus, erythallis, erotylos or amphi- 

 comos or stone of remembrance, eumeces, eumithres, 



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