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32 MERCURy. 5. Cinnabar. Zinnober, Of this species, there are two subspecies, Dark Red Cinnabar, and Bright Red Cinnabar. First Subspecies. Dark Red Cinnabar. Dunkel-rother Zinnober, Werner. Minium, Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiii. 7. s. 38. (ed Bip. 5. v. 204.) ' Dunkel-rother Zinnober, Werner, Pabst. b. i. s. 8. Id. Wid. a. 72S—Dark Red Cinnabar, Kirrv. vol. iii. p. 228. Dunkel- rother Zinnober, Eslner, b. iii. s. 290. Id. Emm. b. ii. s. 144 Le Cinnabre d un rouge fonce, ou le Cinnabre commun, Brock. t. ii. p. 107.—Mercure sulphure, Haug, t. iii. p. 437. Dun- kelrotlier Zinnober, Reuss, b. iii. s. 287. Id. Lud. b i s 207 Id. Suck. 2ter th. s. 118. Id. Bert, s 436. Id. Mobs, b. iii.’ s. 76. Id. Leonhard, Tabcl. s. 52.—Mercure sulphure com- pacte, Brong. t. ii. p. 243—Gemeiner Zinnober, Karstcn, Tabel. s. 60—Blattriger Zinnober, & Dichter Zinnober" Haus. s. 76.—Sulphuret of Quicksilver, Kid, vol. ii. p. 94. Mercure sulphure couleur rouge fonce, IIany, Tabl. p. 78. Cinnabar, Aik in, p. 24. External Characters. Its piincipal colour is perfect cochineal-red, which in some varieties inclines verj much to lead-grey ; in others passes into carmine red. Besides massive, disseminated, in blunt-cornered pieces, in membranes, amorphous, stalactitic, dendritic, and fru- ticose,