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ance it passes into a brownish, it is fawn-coloured {ccrvu 

 7ius). 



6. The red colour {imber, in Greek compounds crythro-), 

 the ground-tone of which is carmine red {piiniceus), has 

 many gradations. 



A i)ale clear red constitutes the rose-red {roscus). A still 

 paler tint, and somewhat soiled, is called incarnatus and car- 

 neus^ according to its different gradations. The former is 

 still a pure, but pale red : the latter, or the flesh colour, is 

 mixed \\\i\\ a yellowish tint. If the pale red falls still more 

 into the yeMow, it is called the tile colour (lateritius). 



A pure red, which is clear and passes into yellow, is called 

 flame-coloured (Jiammeus)^ and also vermilion-coloured {ml- 

 niatu.s). Tile highest degree of it is the scarlet-red {coccu 

 7ieus). 



If the red falls into a brownish, it is called clove-brozcn 

 {jccrampelinus), which is nearly related to the brown-red. 



If the red passes into a dusky black, it is called blood-red 

 {fiangu'meus) ; and a complete similar mixture of pure black 

 and red produces the black-red {atro-purpiiixu^). 



If the clear red has a slight shade of blue, it is called pur- 

 ple (purpiireus). If the mixture of blue and red is almost 

 equal, it is called violet-colour (violaceus) ; and the palest 

 shade of this is lilac Qilacinus). 



7. The blue colour (ccdruleiis^ and in Greek compounds 

 cyaneo-') has as its ground-tone the Berlin-blue {cyaneus), 

 the most complete state of which is denominated sly-blue 

 (jazurcus). 



The lavender-hXuQ. is a pale blue (c^esius) : it is mixed with 

 a little grey. 



If the blue passes into the reddish, it approaches the violet 

 colour. It is expressed by the words jrwpureO'Cocr ulcus. 



8. Lastly, The gi-cen colour (viridis, and in Greek com- 

 pounds chloro-) has as its ground-tone llic emcrald-gi*ecn 

 {sinaragdinus) . 



Its varieties are chiefly the celavdine-grccn ; when mixed 

 with blue (uid arjh grev {bcr'dlus). 



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