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Genus 8. Vitriolum. 



H=2 — 2.5. G=1.8 — 3.2. Taste astringent and metallic, nauscout. 



Sp. 



1. 



V. 



Martiale,* 



Copperas. 

 White Copperas. 



2. 



V. 



hexagonum, 



3. 



V. 



parasiticum, 



Yellow Copperas, 



1. 



V. 



Cyprium, 



Blue Vitriol. 



5. 



V. 



Zincicum 



White Vitriol. 



C. 



V. 



Cobalticum, 



■Cobalt- VilrioL 



7. 



V. 



Uranicurn, 



Johannite. 



8. 



V. 



bicolor, 



Botryogcn. 



Genus 9. GjEALTJM.t 

 H = 2.5— 3.5. G=2.7— 2.9. Taste weak. 



Sp. I. G. obliquum, Glauberite. 



2. G. columnare, Poly halite. 



CLASS II.— ENTOGiEA. 

 OUDER I. HALINEA. 



Genus 1. ASTASIALUS.J 

 H = 1.5 — 2. G=l — 2.5. Decomposed in the flame of a candle. 



Sp. 1. A. pliytogencus,^ Oxalate of Lime- 

 Genus 2. Cryalus.|| 



11=2.25—2.5. G=2.9— 3. Fusible in the flame of a candle. 



Sp. 1. C. fusilis, Cryolite. 



* Tho salts of iron were termed Martial l>y the alchemists, from Mars, tho 

 alchemistic name of iron. 



t Tata, earth, and aM, salt, in allusion to the composition and slight solubility 

 of the species. 



X "Atmiros, unstable; alludes to the facility with which the species is decomposed. 



if <l>oroycveos, originalirg from plants ; the species is supposed to be of vege- 

 table origin. , 



II Kpiios. ice, and 5Xs, ««'< >' from the ready fusibility of the mineral. 



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