CLASS'!. 
INDIVIDUAL ABSOLUTE TERMS. 
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plants, is that of BischolF, 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 [alhus ; in words compounded of Greek, leuco-), 
1. Snow-white (niveus) as the purest white; Camellia ja- 
ponica. 
2. Pure white {candidus ; in Greek composition, very 
pure, but not so clear as the last ; Lilium candidum. 
3. Ivory-white (cream colour ; eburneusy eborinus) ; white verg- 
ing to yellow, with a little lustre ; Convallaria majalis. 
4. Milk-white {lacteus ; in words compounded of Greek, ga- 
lactoS ) ; dull white verging to blue. 
5. Chalk-white {cretaceusy calcareus, gypseus) ; very dull white, 
with a little touch of grey. 
6. Silvery {argenteus ) ; a little changing to bluish grey, 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 (cinereus ; in words compounded of Greek, tephro- 
and spodo-) ; a mixture of pure white and pure black, so as to 
form an intermediate tint. 
11. Ash-greyish (cineraceus) ; the same, but whiter. 
12. Pearl-grey (griseus) ; pure grey, a little verging to blue. 
1 3. Slate-grey (schistaceus) ; grey, bordering on blue. 
14. Lead-coloured (plumbeus); the same with a little metallic 
lustre. 
15. Smoky (fumeuSy fumosus) ; grey, changing to brown. 
16. Mouse-coloured (murinus)y grey, with a touch of red. 
17. Hoary (canusy 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-)y is black without the mixture of any other colour. 
