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HELIOTROPE. 219 some derive carnelian from the Latin words caro or car- neus, which may been given to it, owing to its flesh-red colour. 7. Heliotrope. Heliotrop, Werner. Jaspis variegata, Heliotropius, Wall. t. i. p. 315.—Heliotrop, If’id. s. 316.—Hcliotropiuin, Kirw. vol. i. p. 314. Id. Esi na-, b. i. s. 389- Id. Emm. b. i. s. 171.—Eliotropio, Nap. p. 193. Jaspe sanguin,, Lam. t. ii. p. 166.—L’Hcliotrope, Brock t. i. p. 276.—Quartz-jaspe sanguin, Ilauy, t. ii. p. 436. —Heliotrop, Reicss, b. ii. s. 319- Id- Lud. Suck. Bert. Mohs, b. i. s. 309. Id. Karsten, Tabcl. Id. Leonhard, 'label. Id. I]ah.—Silex Heliotrope, Brong. t. i. p. 297. Quartz-jaspe sanguin, Lucas, p. 37. Id. Brard, p. 101.—Bloodstone, Kid, vol. i. p. 210.—Quartz-agathe ponctue, Ilauy, labl. p. 27.— Heliotrop, Slcjj’ens, b. i. s. 162. Id. 11 off. b. i. s. 105. Id. Lcnz, b. i. s. 423. Id. Oken, b. i. s. 271. External Characters. The principal colour is intermediate between celan dine-green and leek-green ; sometimes passes into moun tain-green, and even into grass and pistachio green. All these colours are dark. Sometimes it is marked with olive-green spots and stripes. The blood and scarlet red and the ochrc-yellow dots and spots, are owing to disse minated jasper. It occurs massive, in angular pieces and rolled pieces. The