TAB. CCV. 
CALX phosphata. — 
Phosphate of Lime, or Apatite. 
Class 2. Earths. Order 1. Homogeneous. 
Gen. 3, Calx. Spec. 3. Phosphata. 
Div. 1. Crystallized. 
Syn. Gemeiner apatit. Emmerl. 1. 502. 
Chaux phosphorée, Apatite. De Born, 1. 363. 
Calx, combined with Phosphoric Acid. Kirw. 
1. 128. , 
Amethyste basaltine. De Lisle, 2. 254. 
Chaux phosphatée. Mauy, 2. 234. 
Aparire has not long been known as a native substance 
of Great Britain, and [ believe it has only been found at 
Stenna Gwyn, in Cornwall, from whence I have received 
it by favour of Mr. Rashleigh. In many instances the 
crystals are so small and so much imbedded in talcose rock 
as scarcely to be discernible, and it is not uncommon for 
the rock itself, or rather the gangue, to be thought Phos- 
phate of Lime altogether. The present specimen was pro- 
cured some years since, and is still a fine one, particularly 
as it shows the primitive crystal, and the nature of its 
fracture, which is very distinctly and neatly apparent. It 
