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BOOK III. 
Atratus and nigritus ; when a portion only of something is 
black ; as the point of the glumes of Carex. 
20. Black (niger) ; a little tinged with grey. A variety is 
nigrescens. 
21. Coal-black {antlir acinus) ; a little verging upon blue. 
22. Raven-black {coracinus, pullus) ; black, with a strong lustre. 
23. Pitch-black (^piceus); black, changing to brown. From this 
can scarcely be distinguished brown black (memnonius), 
IV. Brown. 
24. Chestnut-brown (badius) ; dull brown, a little tinged with 
red. 
25. Brown {fuscus; in Greek composition, ; brown, tinged 
with greyish or blackish. 
26. Deep-brown (brunneus) ; a pure dull brown. Umber-brown 
(umhrinus) is nearly the same. 
27. Bright brown (^spadiceus) ; pure and very clear brown. 
28. Rusty {ferrugineus) ; light brown, with a "little mixture 
of red. 
29. Cinnamon (cinnamomeus) ; bright brown, mixed with yellow 
and red. 
30. Red-brown (^porphyreus) ; brown, mixed with red. 
31. Rufous (rufus, rufescens); rather redder than the last. 
32. f Glandaceus ; like the last, but yellower. 
33. Liver-coloured (Jiepaticus) ; dull brown, with a little yellow. 
34. Sooty {fidigineuSy or fuliginosus) ; dirty brown, verging upon 
black. 
35. Lurid (luridus) ; dirty brown, a little clouded. 
V. Yellow. 
36. Lemon-coloured (citreus, or citrinus)\ the purest yellow, 
without any brightness. 
37. Golden yellow {aureus, auratus ; in Greek composition, 
cliryso-) ; pure yellow, but duller than the last, and bright. 
38. Yellow {luteus ; in Greek composition, xaniho-) ; such yellow 
as gamboge. 
39. Pale yellow {flavus, luteolus, lutescens, flavidus, flavescens) ; 
a pure but paler yellow than the preceding. 
40. Sulphur-coloured {sulphureus) ; a pale lively yellow, with a 
mixture of white. 
41. Straw-coloured (stramineus) ; dull yellow, mixed with white. 
