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JOUBNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



be a law unto themselves, and if we are willing to hold the illustrious 

 Fries as our law-giver, we must study, not so much what color-names 

 should mean, as in what sense he used them." 



Of course no review "of so important a paper can do it justice nor 

 give the reader a clear idea of its contents. For this, one must have 

 access to the original. Nevertheless, a partial list of the color-names, 

 with the elucidation in Mr. Wharton's own words, may with propriety 

 here be ottered : 

 Of the Whites, 



Alhus, meaning a dead white, as distinct from candidus, a shining 

 white, has little prominence in Fries' description. 



Alhellus, albescens^ albidior^ alhidus, and alMneus can only express the 

 idea of whiteness, but seem used rather for "whitish." 



Albicans and candicans should strictly mean becoming white. 



Argenteus and argy ramus are a silvery white, silvered. 



Dealbatus, whitewashed or plastered. 



Verussatus^ colored with white lead. 



I^SS S^lSfte ! have no more ciMinc^^^^^^ than the 



Niveus, snow-white ?atSv Sslated 



Virgineus, virgin or pure white j naturally translated. 



Of pure Greys 



Canus and incanus are the nearest to white. 

 Cinereus is the grey of wood-ashes, 

 cinerascens is becoming such a grey ; 

 griseiis seems to be a little darker, and 

 lixivius a darker still and inclining to brown. 

 Cretaceo-palUdus is a pale, chalky grey. 



Nigrescens and nigricans do no mean so much dark grey as a grey 

 that turns black with age. 

 Of Greys that incline to Blue, 



Ccesius is the palest, (classical term for blue-grey of the eye.) 



Glaucus is a grey that inclines to green, and 



glaucescens denotes a paler shade of the same color. 



Livens and lividus are bluish or leaden-grey, much like molybdus and 



plumbeus 

 Ardosiacus is a dull lead-color. 



Ghalybceus is a steel or iron-grey ; Fries, under Cortinarius sciophyllus 

 explains it as cceruleo-fuscus, dusky blue. 

 Of the Brown-Greys, 



Jfwmius, mouse-color, is the palest. 

 Argillaceus is a light brownish ash-color. 



Fuscus, dusky, is rather a vague term, but it is almost too brown to 



be classed under the greys at all. 

 i^itscescens, means becoming dusky. 

 Bavidus, is a dark grey. 



