Part III. And Stones li\e them* 265 
The SHEATH-STONE. S olenites. Like the petrify d (hell 
of the Sheath-Fijh:Tis filFd with a kind of limy fubftance. 
A piece of WHIRLY^-ROCK. Turbinites Saxum. A fort 
of Gypfum of a dark colour, with the femblance of divers 
kinds of turbinated or whirled (hells immerfed therein. 
DilToIuble with Sprit of Nitre's but very flowly. There is 
one like to this in Befler. 
A Piece of white MUSCLE-ROCK. Mufculites Saxum. 
With the fimilitude of little, white, furrow'd Mufcle-fhells. 
Another Piece of an Afh-colour, and more foft. 
A piece of fpoted MUSCLE-ROCK , fc. with white, 
red and brown, in imitation of Marble. In which alfo are 
beded, as it were, feveral Mufcle-jheUs. Although it hath 
the face of Marble, yet is it a kind of Gypfum, diffoluble 
with Spirit of Nitre. 
A Piece of MIXED SHELL-ROCK. Conchiies mifceUa- 
neus. Compofed of petrify 'd (hells, both of the Turbina- 
ted, and the Bivalvous kinds, beded in a kind of gritty 
Lime-Stone. In Calceolarias Mufdeum (a) is one like to ( a \$& 
this, in the form of a C hoping- Knife ', but without a Name. p. 3 17. ' 
Another in Ferranti Imperato. (b) And in Aldrovanduss Lib 
Mufdeum, by Ambrofinus called Oftracomorphos Lapis. Not c . 25.* " 
properly, Lapis, as being part of a Rocf^: nor,by the former 
word, fufficiently expreffing the mixture of ihells therein. 
Another, coniifting of fuch like ihells ( or their refem- 
blance ) beded in a brown Stone. 
CHAP. E 
Of VEGETABLE BODIES petriff d P and other 
% STONES. 
/^\F this kind, here is alfo great variety 5 being'', or 
v. J reprefenting,Fruits,parts of Flowers, Leaves,BrancheSj 
Stalks, Trunks, and Roots: in which order I (hall fet them 
down. Only referving CORALS with other like Marine 
Productions, to be fpoken of by themfelves. 
A Petrifyd KATHERINE PEAR, or a Stone naturally 
very like one.Being 0 as that is fometimes,a little bended,very 
M m flender 
