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OLIVINE. *71 scribe the asparagus-stone of Werner under the name Chrysolite; and other writers have confounded it with Chrysoberyl, and oil-green Beryl. Hauy considers it as a variety of olivine, but Werner places it in the system as a distinct species, in which he is followed by Mohs, Steffens, and other mineralogists. 5. Olivine. Olivin, Werner. Olivin, Werner, Bergm. Journ. 3. 2. s. 50—Chrysolit en grains irreguliers, De Born. t. i. p. 70—Olivin, Wid. s. 261. Id. Kirtv. vol. i. p. 263i Id. Emm. b. i. s. 35.—Crysolito com mune, Nap. p. 131.—Olivine, Lam. t. ii. p. 278. Id. Broch. t. i. p. 175.—Peridot granuliforme, Hauy, t. iii. p. 205.— ■ Olivin, lleuss, b. ii. s. 49. Id. Lud. b. i. s. 61. Id. Suck. Irth. s. 556. Id. Bert. s. 151. Id. Mohs, b. i. s. 45.— Chrysolith Olivin, Halt. s. 56.—Peridot granuliforme, Lucas, p. 74. Olivin, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 2.—Peridot Olivine, Brong. t. i. p. 441.—Peridot granuliforme, Brard, p. 179-—■ Olivin, Karst. Tabel. s. 40. Id. Kid, vol. i. p. 122.—Peridot granuliforme, & lamelliforme, Hauy, Tabl. p. 52.—Olivin, Steffens, b. i. s. S6S. Id. Lens, b. i. s. 206.—Weicher Peri dot, Okcn, b. i. s. 334. External Characters. Its colour Is olive-green, which passes on the one side into asparagus-green, on the other into oil-green, and in to a colour intermediate between ochre and cream yellow, and into pale yellowish-brown. It occurs massive, in roundish pieces, in grains, and. rarely crystallised, in broad rectangular four-sided prisms, E 4 which