4i6 TALC GENUS. r SECOND SUBSPECIES. Axeftone. Beilftein —Werner. Id. E/lner, b. 2. f. 85r. Id. Etnm. b. 3. f. 351. — E® Pierre de Hache, Broch. t. 1. p. 470. External Characters. Its colour is intermediate between mountain green and leek green, and pafies into dark grafs green, oil green and greenifh grey. Occurs maffive. Internally its luftre is firongly glimmering. Fra<9:ure flaty in the great, and more or Iefs dif* tin&Iy fplintery in the fmall. Fragments tabular. Tranflucent. Semi-hard, approaching jo hard. Not particularly brittle. Difficultly frangible. Not particularly heavy. ■ r- GeegnosM