NEW LITERATURE. 



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Fmwsus, fuUgineus aud fuUginosus are best translated smoky, and 

 not, as the latter might be, sooty black. 



Of Blacks, 



Ater is strictly a lustreless black, and 

 niger is a glistening black. 



coracinus, raven-black, with a tinge of blue, into the latter. 

 Atraius and puUatus mean simply " clothed in black." 

 Denigratus, " blackened," is used for a dark, dusky brown. 



Of Pale Yellow, the type seems to be 



luteus, like the flowers of woad {Isatis tinctoria) ; 



luteolus and sulpliureus, sulphur yellow, are paler than this. 



Stramineus, straw-colored, denotes a paler and less pure yellow 



(Naples yellow), of which 

 cerinus is a deeper, darker shade, 

 croceus, saifron yellow, being a fuller shade. 

 Citrinus is our lemon-yellow, yellow of w^ax. 



Of Full YeUow, 



Flavus, gamboge-yellow, is the type ; which is flavissimus at its fullest 

 brilliancy. 



Flavidus is a paler yellow, purer and richer than luteus. 

 VitelUnus, like the yolk of an egg. ^ot far olf flavus is 

 aureus, gold-colored, i^hich seems to me most like the Cadmium yel- 

 low of artists ; its diminutive 

 aureolus, does not seem to be a very different shade. 

 Galbanus, the color of the gum galbanum, is a greenish yellow. 



Of Orange- Yellows, 



aurardius being a full orange. Cadmium orange, and 

 aurantiacus a paler orange containing less red. 

 Igneus and Jlammeolus, denoting the color of flame, and 

 fulmineus, that of lightning, come in this place, but seem to have no 

 very certain application. 



Persicinus and persicolor, are difficult to describe more intelligibly 

 than by peach color. 



Atmeniaceus, apricot-colored, is explained by Fries as tawny-cinna- 

 mon (fulvo-cinnamomeus) or yellowish-tan (helvolo-alutaceus). 



Of Yellow-Browns, 



einnamomms, cinnamon, a light yellowish brown, is the palest. 



Gilvus is a yellower shade. 



Alutaceus seems best translated by buff or tan ; 



helvolus is lighter and yellower. 



Grustulinus seems to be the color of toast. 



Ochraceus is yellow-ochre, and 



