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GLOSSOLOGY. 
BOOK TIT. 
plants, is that of Bischoff, in his excellent Terminology ; 
what follows is chiefly taken from that work. 
There are eight principal colours, under which all the 
others may be arranged ; viz. white, grey, black, brown, 
yellow, green, blue, and red. 
I. White (albus; in words compounded of Greek, leuco-). 
1. Snow-white (niveus) ; as the purest white; Camellia ja- 
ponica. 
2. Pure white {candidus ; in Greek composition, argo-) ; very 
pure, but not so clear as the last ; Lilium candidum. 
3. Ivory-white (cream colour ; eburneus, eboi-inus) ; white verg- 
ing to yellow, with a little lustre ; Convallaria majalis. 
4. Milk-white (lacteus ; in words compounded of Greek, ga- 
lacto-) ; dull white verging to blue. 
5. Chalk- white (^cretaceus, calcareus, gypseus) ; very dull white, 
with a little touch of grey. 
6. Silvery {cirgenteus) ; a little changing to bluish gre}^ with 
something of a metallic lustre. 
7. Whitish {albidus) ; any kind of white a little soiled. 
8. Turning white (^albescens) ; changing to a whitish cast from 
some other colour. 
9* Whitened (dealbatus) ; slightly covered with white upon a 
darker ground. 
II. Grey. 
10. Ash-grey (cmerew5; in words compounded of Greek, tephro- 
and spado-) ; a mixture of pure white and pure black, so as to 
form an intermediate tint. 
1 1 . Ash-greyish (cineraceus) ; the same, but whiter. 
12. Pearl-grey (griseus) ; pure grey a little verging to blue. 
13. Slate-grey (schistaceus) ; grey bordering on blue. 
14. Lead-coloured (plumbeus) ; the same with a little metallic 
lustre. 
15. Smoky (^fumeus, fumosus) ; grey changing to brown. 
16. Mouse-coloured (murinus); grey with a touch of red. 
17. Hoary (canus, or incanus) ; a greyish whiteness, caused by 
hairs overlying a green surface. 
18. Rather hoary (canescens); a variety of the last. 
III. Black. 
19. Pure black {ater ; in Greek composition, mela- or me- 
lano-) ; is black, without the mixture of any other colour. 
