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LATIN TERMS USED IN BOTANY TO DENOTE COLOUR. 1038 
definite ; scyricum is gived by Charleton as ‘‘Gentianella blew”’ 
glastinns by the same writer as ‘‘woad, watchet and light blew”; 
icus, blue inclining to purple; intigotiows, indigo-blue, having a 
ae ase black in it; and dark blue, cyana 
XI.— E is very variously luaaaeit practically it is any 
mixture of blue and red; Saccardo treats it as ceri ea us with 
crimson, but the majority regard it as having more of blue in its 
composition. Purpureus, porphyreus, therefore, are general i in their 
application, followed by purpurascens, purpurellus, be Schon and 
porphyreo-leucus ; atropurpureus is familiar to most in the old 
cultivated “ Sweet Scabious,”” Scabiosa atropurpurea. Rail purple, 
previously mentioned vinaceus, vinosus, and vinicolor come near 
these a Of a lighter tint we find molochinus and malvinus, both 
expres ron bluish pink Malva flowers ; lilacinus, lilaceus, syrin 
reca 
shades, deeper tones denoted by amethysteus, amethystinus, hya- 
gone and atro-violaceus. 
hoff ranks porphyreus as amongst the browns; it seems 
concn. 
colours; pallidus has also been made use of for almost every pale 
tint of the artist’s — luridus is nearly as indefinite ; tristis and 
sordidus, any dull uninviting hue, obscurus being perhaps a truer 
term; coruscans ae mean any strikingly brilliant colour or 
combination ; ; metallicus, any glistening tint suggestive of a metal. 
Fulmineus, ‘“ lightning-coloured,”’ according to Wharton, is 
‘«‘ fulvus, fere ‘eannneat of Fries; it is employed in Cortinarius 
fulmineus Fr. 
Another subsection consists of terms implying colour, but 
abstaining from indicating it, such as coloratus, concolor, bicolor, 
mutabilis, variegatus, pictus, guttatus, punctulatus, and the like. 
Marmoratus has also its place here, although it has been used 
as yrs with alabastrinus, ete. 
I urposely abstained from augmenting my list from the 
dicticnatiae: confining myself to thos e terms which are supposed to 
be te the use of natur aliste, especially botanists. Had 
chosen to put i in all the tints which are related to Aelvus, for instance, 
I must have given many more seats seemed appropriate. Indeed 
the dictionary translation of helvus and its satellites is pale red, 
which is not its present day use. 
ere yet remain more than a score of terms proposed to — 
colour, which have not been adopted by others; as they s to 
be on record only in the original place ee publication ae De 
egies 1814), I prefer to give them in a separate paragraph in 
the order chosen by the author, saa the zoological and 
rafioulogiial terms. 
