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549 CALC GENUS. -v- '•* - -j . ... FIFTEENTH SPECIES* : Jl V ..1. * Afparagus, or Spargel Stone. | ' - ' ? :v>: 1 I ^ ; . Spargelftein.—Werner. j , | >• . ' ,,-j * . • 1-. ■ . .. Jllv '{ Id. Eflner, b. 2. f. 1045. Id. Emm. b. 3. f. 359—_Chau# phofphatee verte, Hatty, t. 2. p. 237.__.La pierrc d’a£* j|| jj perge, Brocb. t. 1. p.. 586 i. * External Char afters. Its principal colour is afparagus green, which in fome varieties paffes into greenifh white ; fometimes it approaches to piftacio green j and other varieties; have a colour which is intermediate between orange ■ and yellowilh brown. It occurs only cryftallifed, and that in equiangular ' ‘ffi fix-fided prifms, which are obtufely (but not fo ob- tufe as appatite) acuminated by fix planes, which are ^ | fet on the lateral planes j the lateral edges are alfo , truncated. •, The