100 LATIN TERMS USED IN BOTANY TO DENOTE COLOUR. 
Spodochrous is grey in agave Molybdus, molybdinus, oni are 
lead-coloured ; about the same inten nsity wit 
columbianus and palumbinus, which, meaning dove-coloured, gre 
misappropriated by a grey pigeon. Darker still are ardosiacus 
and schistaceus, slate-coloured; while tylicolor and oniscus ar 
the tints of the wood-louse, and elephines and elephinus the deep 
colour of an elephant’s hide. Chalybeus and subustulatus stand 
for steel-grey; murinus and myochrous are mouse- pr (Fries 
distinguishes between these, the former the lighter); atro- 
schistaceus, very da ae iy: fumosus, pe ‘Meee dag igestcy. 
capnodes, capnoides, subfuscus, subaquilus, ae es smoky or sooty 
tints (Charleton adds sepiaceus, which should be ranked amongst 
the browns); elbidus, ‘‘ saddest grey ”’ ; ioe and nigricans are 
greys which turn black. 
Other terms which are too se to be precisely localized are— 
nebulosus (Bischoff = fumosus) ; ferreus, ‘* iron-gray,’’ —Charleton, 
who also renders ‘ peach- eee ” by fulgens, fulgidus, splendens ! 
IV.—Various qualities of Buack oh pe shi ala names ; 
thus ater is pure black, without a trace of bro r blue in it; 
atricolor cannot te ar off the sam e@; ied mires inky; niger, 
glistening black, oe a trifle rusty ; ; nigerrimus, intense black ; 
anthracinus, coal-black; piceus, pitchy ; piceo-ater and furvus are 
swarthy and lantrolein: atratus and nigritus, garbed in black ; 
pullus a pullulatus, about the same tint; memnonius, nearly the 
same as piceus, perhaps a little browner; ethiopicus, negro- -black ; 
coracinus, corvinus, metallic lustrous black with a tinge of blue ; 
nigellus, blackish, and denigratus, blackened, are wanting in 
precision, 
but are practically Patios to a dee brown. Less precise are 
brunnescens and bruneolus, lighter tints. pogo would seem to 
imply the colour of the native earth, but, as we are info rmed that 
liver-coloured, redder; hiberus, “red and black cts murrey ”’ 
eeper tones being atro-brunneus, blackish haa ; ustalis bsid 
ustulatus, scorched or charred wood. Lighter browns, akin to 
yellow, are spadiceus, date-brown ; avellaneus, Walice, cor iD bate 
tint of a new hazel-nut, Speen a ripe acorn, come near the 
ae shades named under range, as also ligno-Brsinnst, ‘Bgili, 
lignicolor umably the tint of recent wood before it becomes 
grey by exposure, hence yellowish brown. 
