102 LATIN TERMS USED IN BOTANY TO DENOTE COLOUR. 
succineus, amber; sulphureus, sulphurellus, sulphurinus, sulphur- 
yellow, pure but light; primulinus, a shade greener than the last; 
stramineus, straminellus, paleus, straw-colour, like the last, but 
browner ; buaeus, colour of box-wood; cerinus, beesw hen in the 
comb; melleus, mellinus, honey-colour, the former ambiguous, being 
also used for smelling of honey; ochraceus, ochroleucus, lutosus, 
ochre-colour, that is, yellow broken with a tinge of red. 
Connected with the foregoing are many mixed tints, tertiaries, 
uch as fulvus, buff with its variants fulvidus, fulvellus, fulvescens ; 
ran etc leoninus, cervinus, cervineus, cervicolor, camelinus, mustel- 
linus, taking t eir names from the prevalent hue of the lion, stag, 
camel, and weasel, varying buffs and drabs; hinnuleus, fawn-colour, 
tawny cinnamon. Stronger in tint, but impure, are galbanus, the 
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‘*stone-colour,” that is, white broken with ochre, and sometimes 
umber. favus and its diminutive ravidus seem to be between 
yellow and grey 
X.—Green is termed viridis without more critical definition, 
its synonyms, more or less accurate, being virens, viridans, virescens, 
viridescens, viridulus. Grass-green is herbeus, herbaceus, gramineus 
peop as vetch-green, that is, with a dak of black in i —— ens, 
oviridis, melanochlorus, nigro-virens, very deep green are 
oe & bright yellowish green. Chlorascens, arin enor oticus 
greenish. 
Aneus is brassy; @reus, bronze; erugineus, eruginosus, verdigris- 
green ; saligneus, willow-green, that j is, low- toned ; subviridis may be 
the same. Olivascens, olivaceus, oliveus, olivicolor, olivinus, el@odes, 
pausiacus, all express the tint of a ripe olive. 
Glaucus, glaucinus, glaucescens, thalassinus, thalassicus, light sea- 
green, to which may be added vitreus of some authors; aqua marin, 
a clear sea-green verging towards blue; and venetus, a deep sea-green. 
Githaginosus (Hayne, Bischoff ) and oo. (Lindley) are 
defined as greenish red, a contradiction; the name is derived from 
Githago, and it refers to red or purple ribs on a green calyx, such 
as occurs in some species of Silene, 
X.—Buuve has a comparatively small list to express its varieties ; 
eden’ calestis, azureus, calicolor are sky-blue 
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lazulinus is ultr ine, & pigment of various shades, but always a 
amarine, 
clear bright blue ; turcoisinus and turcosus stand for turquoise-blue, 
that is, with a hint of cesius and cesiellus are the blue- 
_ grey of the eye; subceruleus se lividulus, less clear, and not very 
