366 Ninth Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 
cium, It pipes omg a hydrous apatite, and it maria be a whether the 
mineral is of u rm composition, there is how no doubt that the copper exists 
in the mineral hs as ngs hate.—( Chem. Gazette, Ju a 15th, 1859 
Payiiire—See Chlorotoid. 
PINITOID; A. Knop (Jahrb. Min., 1859, 558).—This nev name has been give 
toa sosiaaeal of a rock beerery: near Chemnitz, in Saxony. The rock poe 
according to Knop, of quartz 58°06, mica 6°19, feldspar 8°44 on pinitoid 25°77 woe - 
The pinitoid was essing .« ut from the other species by sulphuric acid. 
cl 
Mere cryeteliine ptt of a ty and Se ae character. ‘cers le “i oil a 
i i tisa 
posed pornty’ ry. ‘Com 
Si 
Mn H 
ATT 32°65 8: 94 5°86 150 0°49 tr 4:19 = 101-40 
This corresponds so closely to some of the analyses of the Saxon pinite, that it is to 
be Lontel the author has embarrassed the science with a new name for a species 
already overloaded with synonyms, 
PISANITE, onli Uebersicht, 1859, 10. This name is given by Kenngott to 
a cupreous variety aon copperas from Turkey, analyzed by Pisani, noticed in the VIII 
under probe 
Potycrase [p. 3 st) —This x one has been found by E. — in the syenite of 
the Plauenische-Grund near Dresden, (Letter from Prof. Geinitz). 
Proustire [p. 78].— Analysis of proustite from Chile by F. Field (Quar. Jour. 
Chem. Soc., xii, 12): 43 pe : , 
Ag As 8 
64°88 15°12 19°81 99°81 
3AgS, AsSy. 
Pyrarernirs [p. 77, IV]. rows red silver from Chile gave F. Field on analysis 
(Quar. Jour. Chem. Soc, xii, 
g Sb 
59°01 53°16 (pai = 99°62 
ou cia 
x [p. 158, I, II, V—VIII].—Crystals of pyroxene from Vesuvian la 
of rio erution in seay, analyzed by Wedding (Kopp’s Jahresbericht, 1859, 7 $0). 
Al #e 6 Mn 
48° ‘86 8°63 2°73 4: 54 20°62 14-01 tr, = 99°39 
: For pet ma on crystals of pyroxene from Warwick by vom Rath, see Pogg. 
nN., CXi 
ae [p. 120, V, VII]—Observations on Be 2d bah inved “tno of, see Kokscharow 
in Bull. Imp. A Acad, St. Petersburg, i, 229. Haiding marks on the crystals, 
of ates from Graves’ Mo untain, Wien at vere nd. st 5, 1860. “e 
00, II, VI).-—Rammelsberg (Pogg. Ann. cix, 570 
results given by Scacchi. Occurs i n transparent dimetric nist color, red- 
dish white; sp. gr. 2-982, Gelatinizes with chlorhydric acid. B.B, fuses to 4 
white enamel. 
i 
a Ca Na kK Fi 
A 39°79 2215. 81-59 3°30 1°20 tr, == 98:03 
2 40°78 21-07 ae _e_ 
3. 40°97 21°30 33°14 es Serr 
Mean, 4054 21°54 ~ + 32°36 3°30 1°20 ir. = 98°91 
Oxygen, 21°03 10°34 9°24 0°84 0°20 
The oxygen ratio of R: Al: Si is as 1 Rabe tee as in garnet. Rammelsberg 
writes the formula 3(Ca, Na, oe Eau This analysis agrees with the results 
obtained by Scacchi (Min. p. 200). Sarcolite differs from humboldtilite in contain- 
ing no magnesia, but the t "abaya eg are near pseu ta toe bane OS 
