[3247] “Grape-cluster stone.”
[3248] “Puniceus” seems to be a preferable reading to “pampineus,”
“like a vine-tendril,” given by the Bamberg MS.
[3249] Possibly it may have been Datholite or Borate of lime, a variety
of which is known as Botryolite.
[3250] “Hair-stone.” This was probably either Iron alum, known also as
Alun de plume; Alunogen, known also as Feather Alum or hair salt; or
Amianthus, also called satin Asbestus. See B. xxxvi. c. 31.
[3251] “Ox-heart.” Supposed to be a sort of Turquois, Hardouin says.
[3252] “Thunder-stone.”
[3253] “Clod-stone.” It may possibly have been a kind of Geodes. See
B. xxxvi. c. 32. Dalechamps, however, identifies it with Crapaudine,
Toad-stone, or Bufonite, supposed in former times to be produced by the
toad, but in reality the fossil tooth of a fish.
[3254] See B. iii. c. 4.
[3255] See B. xxxiv. c. 22, and Chapter 65 of this Book.
[3256] Identical, probably, with the Callaina of Chapter 33, our
Turquois.
[3257] Lapis lazuli.
[3258] “Smoke-stone.” Identical with the jasper called “capnias,” in