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and in combination with other substances.—As 
bordering on the varieties of actinote in the ad¬ 
joining opposite glass case, we have here the dial- 
lage^ the green variety of which, called also 
smaragdite, is considered by Werner as a granu¬ 
lar variety of actinote; in combination with 
saussurite (a variety of compact feldspar) it con¬ 
stitutes the verde di Corsica .—In its vicinity is 
also placed the axe-stone or Punamu-stone, thus 
called after one of the New Zealand islands, 
where the natives make hatchets, idols, &c. of 
it: it is generally considered as a variety of jade. 
(Case 17.) This case is occupied by the mi¬ 
caceous and talcose substances.—Among the va¬ 
rieties of mica or glimmer may be specified those 
that exhibit perfectly transparent crystals; the 
beautiful red and yellow varieties, together with 
those of metallic lustre; diverging-radiated mica, 
&c.—Among the specimens of pinite (micarelle 
of Kirwan) is that in minute crystals imbedded 
in a feidspatic rock, from St. Michael’s Mount in 
Cornwall.—Lepidolite; with this is placed a spe¬ 
cimen of what is considered as compact lepido¬ 
lite.—-Intermediate between mica and talc is the 
chlorite, among the varieties of which are the 
earthy, common, foliated, and the slaty : the 
last of these, with octohedral magnetic iron¬ 
stone, bitter spar, &c.—Of talc We have the 
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