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II. ORDER.—GOLD. This Order contains only two species, viz. Native Gold, and Electrum. 1. Native Gold. Gediegen Gold, Werner. This species is divided into three subspecies, viz. Gold- yellow Native Gold, Brass-yellow Native Gold, and Greyish-yellow Native Gold. First Subspecies. Gold-yellow Native Gold. Gold-gelbes Gediegen Gold, Werner. Id. Wer. Pabst- b. i. s. S. Id. Emm. b. ii. s. 111. Id. Estner, b. iii. s. VI5.—L Or natif, jaune d’Or, Brock, t. ii. p. 89. Gold-gelbes gediegen Gold, Reuss, b. iii. s. 246 Id. Mohs, ' b. 111. s. 11. Id. Leonhard, Tabei. s. 51. Id. Karslen, Tabel. s. 60. External Characters. Its colour is perfect gold-yellow, which varies in in tensity ; in some varieties it inclines to brass-yellow. It occurs seldom massive, often disseminated, in mem branes, in roundish and flattjsh pieces, in grains which are large, coarse, small and fine, in leaves, filiform, reti culated,