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VIII. Tie Lapide Ofteocolla Inquifitio , Au&ore 
Ambrofio Beurero Neur ember genfi ; com- 
municator per Dominum Petrum Collinfo' 
num, R. S. S, 
Read May 9. y APIS Ofteocolla variis nominibus 
74j ' I i infignitur; communiflime tamen 
OJliocolla five OJieocolla dicitur, quod vocabulum e 
duobus gratis o^iov, os, & xaAA a, gluten, compo- 
nitur : alias etiam audit lapis oftites, ollofteos, oflina, 
offifana, ofiifraga, lapis AJiaticus , ‘Pierre de Monti , 
lapis Morochius , flores arena;, fofiile arborefcens, 
lapis fabilis, lapis arenofus ; Germanico idiomatc, 
25ruc^ ^tein, fktcmbruxf^tew, 
I&nocljen * fbtetn, I^anD * fbtetu, 75zinf)zyl , 
25e(nbruc^^tein, 25etn^ueU^tetu, 
Isnoc^en^btew, ^>tem 25lumwe + 
Majores noftri nullum habuere hujus lapidis no- 
titiam, putantes efte ofla petrefada; aliis fpeciem 
gypfi credentibus. 
Ofieocolla autem provenit in ducatu Crojfenfi, Si- 
lefia, Pomerania, HaJJia, Saxonia, ‘Polonia, ‘JDarm - 
Jiadii , Heidelberg# , Spira , Jena, Megalop oli, in 
march ionatu Brandenburgico ad Befcoviam, Snone- 
bergam, & Drojfenam. 
Tellus, ubi provenit, femper eft fabulofa & fterilis; 
paflimque nihil aliarum arborum aut plantarum con- 
ipicitur, nifi mera populi : nulla; autem, quod qui- 
dem tradunt, inveniuntur in vallibus, neque oriuntur 
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