MERCURIAL HEPATIC ORE. 29 i. Mercurial Hepatic Ore or Mercurial Liver-Ore. Quecksilber Lebererz, Werner. This species contains two subspecies, viz. Compact Mercurial Hepatic Ore, and Slat, Hepatic Mercunal Ore. First Subspecies. Compact Mercurial Hepatic-Ore. Diclites Quecksilber Lebererz, Werner. ' Id Werner, Pabst. b. i. s. S.-Compact Hepatic Mercurial-Ore, ( Kirrv. vol. ii. p. 224.—Diclites Quecksilber Lebererz, Estne , b iii. s. 281. Id. Emm. b. ii. s. 140,-Mine de Mercure he- patique, Brock, t. ii. p. 104.—Diclites Lebererz, Ecuss, b. m. s. 282. Id. Lud. b. i. s. 207. Id. Mohs, b. m. cure sulphure hepatique, Broug. t. ii. p. 243—D.chtes bererz, Karsten, Tabel. s. 60. Id. Haas. s. 76—Mercure sulphure bituminifere compacte, IIany, labl. p. 78. External Characters. Its colour is intermediate between dark cochineal-red and dark lead-grey. It occurs massive. Internally it is glistening or glimmering, and the lustre is semi-metallic. The fracture is even ; it rarely approaches to fine grained uneven, but sometimes passes into imper ec a conclioidal. . < . The fragments are indeterminate angular, anil ratlic sharp-edged.