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GLOSSOLOGY. 
BOOK III. 
8. Of Variegation, or Marking. 
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1. Variegated (variegatus) ; the colour disposed in various irre- 
gular, sinuous spaces. 
2. Blotched [maculatus) ; the colour disposed in broad, irregular 
blotches. 
3. Spotted {guttatus) ; the colour disposed in small spots. 
4. Dotted (punctatus) ; the colour disposed in very small round 
spots. 
5. Clouded (nebulosus) ; when colours are unequally blended 
together. 
6. Marbled (marmoratus) ; when a surface is traversed by irre- 
gular veins of colour ; as a block of marble often is. 
7. Tessellated (tessellatus) ; when the colour is arranged in small 
squares, so as to have some resemblance to a tessellated 
pavement. 
8. Bordered (limbatus) ; when one colour is surrounded by an 
edging of another. 
9. Edged {marginatus) ; when one colour is surrounded by a 
very narrow rim of another. 
10. Discoidal {discoidalis) \ when there is a single large spot of 
colour in the centre of some other. 
11. Banded {fasciatus); when there are transverse stripes of 
one colour crossing another. 
12. Striped (vittatus) ; when there are longitudinal stripes of 
one colour crossing another. 
13. Ocellated {ocellatus)\ when a broad spot of some colour has 
another spot of a different colour within it. 
14. Painted (^pictus)\ when colours are disposed in streaks of 
unequal intensity. 
