added to it, takea from its downy filameats, to difcri- 
minate ic from all the reft of the Alums. 
From the light gray colour of its lanuginous parts, it is 
calld by fome Folia ; by others Cor/oides and from its 
likenels to the hoary fibres of fome fort of Matmed^ Spar-^ 
topolia^. From the capacity it has of being fpun into 
thred, it is alfo calld Linum^ with fome diftinguifhing 
taken either from its quality^ fuch as asbejiinum^ 
Qrvivum^i or from the place where found, in general 
or particular it being calld in general Linum fojjile i 
in Englijh^ Earth-flax and in particular Linum Indicum by 
G melius ^hodiginus^ ; Linum Creticum by Straboi-^ Linum 
Cyprium by PanciroUus s ; alfo Carpafium by Plutarch and 
'HJpodiginus ^ from Carpajia a City in Cyprus, near which 
it is found ^ ; and Linum CaryjUum, l>y Paufanias from a. 
Town of that name in Sfegropont where it was alfo 
dugg ^ . But beiide thefe places that have given Epithets 
to the thi?ed made of it, it is alfo found mTartary, as M. 
PautusYenetus \ and Mn Waite agree,* and as Agricola 
informs us, ntNamur in thcLovf- Countries at Eisf Id in^ 
Thuringia ; amongft the mines in the old Noricum i 
loraewhere in jEgypt, and in the mountains of Arcadia i 
Alio 2it Puteolz 2LS John ii/l^j^^J acquaints " 5 and lately ia 
fome mines in Italy by Stgni&r Marco Antonio Ca/iagna °^ 
To which we may add our own Country^ it having been 
yet latelyer met with in a fmall i/Zand belonging to Wil- 
liam J^binfon Efq ; called Tnis Molroniadi. e. the IJland 
ofxS'^/3(-^:^/z/^/,in the parilb oi LLan-Fair yng Hornrvy in 
AlnglefeymWales. 
Secondly as to the natural principles oi it,.though itbe 
commonly by the Lithographers reckon'd among //6?«^/, 
I rather fliould judg it a terra lapidofa or middle fubllance 
t Ibidem. dQ. Piinii z^'' . N^t. Hift. Lib. t^, cap. i. c C«I. Rhodigini Left, antiq. Lib. | 
tap. 31» /Strabonis rer. Gcograph. Lib. lo Guid. Panciroili rer depcrdit. Tit. 4, iCael. 
Rhodigini Le£lion. Amiq Lib. 14. cap. i ky'iA. Geo. Agricols de Nar. Foflil. Lib. j. /Mar 
PauliVenet. de Regionib, Oriental. Lib. I cap. 47. w Geo. Agticol Ibid, » pet. Andr. Matthio- 
lilpift. Lib. 3. i^philofoph. Turifa^. Numb. 1^6.71. 
