Fig. ix. A botxueid, or high-bliftered, fparkling mundie-incruft&»
tion on the cieareft cryftal, the colour of the moft poliftied braß.
x. StUlatitious mundic, fparkling, yellow,, pendant, from the
Pool copper-work in Ilfogan 1 | _
xi. The tubercles or bjifters oval, inclined in parallel dire&ion j
on the fummit they have mammillae or nipples j die fiirface fprinkied
with a gdd-cobured and purple powder; the texture brown flaky-
mundic, very uncommon. Likely ftillatitibus. .
xii. Oval blifters of die brown-mundic, eluftered like a pineapple,’
fprinkied with gold powder a? the former, on a bed o f
G° x in . Brafs-cdbraed mundic o f a velvet' glbfs, wreathed in the
fliape of a turbinated fliell, from the mould o f which it ferns t<?
have borrowed its figure, ^nd may therefore be reckoned an extra-
neous foflil: from Pendarses. It is one of the caehleomorphites of
Dr. Hot, (Oxfordlhire, Tab. VI. Fig. 1 1 .) ,and what Lhuyd, in
his Lithophyladjjm, calls fbf Nerita faJßMs, ;Nh
xiy. Blifters like reclined tubes, formed pf paraUel trings, ft
worms or caterpillars half buried in die ground o f mundier.
xv. Buttony mundip in five perfp&ly gjobplar protuberance?.
Cncofarcon- XVI. A wavy hordure, or cordon o f brafs-coloured mundic,
cave mondics gf one end, and at the other fpreading into a circle, end-
^ g in a finall cavity, and indofing a largerinthe fliape o fa n ip -
verted cone, which has three feveral.ftages o f radiated fibres.
xvii. Several fegments df circles, 'creffèd wrffi atoóntihued aftragal,
which edges a tuft of the largeft-fpangied bral&=coloured munftid.
x viii. Apiece of fpangled brafs-coloured(mundie in; r©lieye, with
a fringed edging fhaped' byflye fegmepts o f aeircie ingrafted, or
wifti the points where they'meet outwards'. ''
xix. This bpautifijl piece of kce^wprk is at s, funk into the
moft circular cavity, from whence ihe fix lifts or threads turn
off pn either hand, and protruding theqdelves Into various angles,
and preferving their parallelem throughout,1 trace round the extre»
pities of this m e fpedmen. From a tin-mine, called Ludgvan-
Ipz work, in the pgrifh of Ludgvpn.
xx. On the top there is a molding of fringy, tufted, brafs-oo-
loured mpndic, which divides the fpangled furfape into compartments,
as k, and makes the upper brim of the cavities with which
this fpecimen is lb dlftinguilheft. Belpw this tufted edge runs a
moft exadt circular lift, K A K which gives great regularity to the
cavities underneath* This lift has little breaks in ft, like an aftragal
i See of this fort two other fpedmeris, Pi. XVI.
Pig. x x x i y . and XXXV. ^age 14J.
I ' See Plate XVI. Fig. MV, Sr, tvi. page
l i f t
of
of beaftfFOfk, Ir ^cj^ilc<Snrc. Beyond: the circular cavities are ft>me
angular, ones, as. i-Lfor ^rigjy,
Fig, The, colour f,(?.f tftp higheft ppliihed flyer, the circles
moft cx a^ fpmeiwha?, 9dgod with a beaded aftragal; a,
is about the tenth of an p ch d ^ s radiated as in the fculptyre ; <5,
has a taper hillock, pf th§ famo. fpangled mundic in it§ center, and
fome faint;$iage^jpf rays found lb This is part pf a large rich in-
ppnftatipn pf the ^latp-ip^ndip, pn irnilk-white cryftali The fpecimen
is orc third p f an inch thiqh, nine inches long, and jfve wide,
at,a medium, with feventqen cavities funk |n fts iuriftce, nearly of
ihe. fiiesrofr what ago'hord exhibftnd, five ,9f which have in their
cepter the little hdlouk, k i ft C°at?d the fid0 of the ming, fo that
its fiirface was not horizontal but perpendicular, From the fame
mine,
xxii,.. On. ngrecnift1! Iparkling mundic, a lift of ftpall beads plate xvi
edging like a gold twift, the f l a p f t were} of a pocket, imbafted.Page I41’
- x x i l i- A. mnndic. figure,; imbofted in the fhape of a fpear’s
head, .ca?v§d at the edge,
xsivt, Qn the top, o f, a ychnw-Tpan^fd mundic is this flower in
high relievo, lying Angle and entire, carved at the edge?, Iparkling
with gold duft; ft does not confift of tft-cnlar lines only, put js a
cuijpus piixtnrc o f ftraight and not much unlike the form
|0t an ancient harp. r
xxv. An embodied flower, carved at the edges, like a goofe-head,
of gpld-eoJour’d fpangled rnundic, covered with a fparkling pehrous
glldder,
.. . xxvi. A bird’s head (as it Were) embpfled, pn a thin plate pf pur-
ple-fpangled mundic powder’d m fome parts with gold duft*
xxvin A regular triangle pf fpangled yellow mundic carved at
the edges.
xxv m, Granules pf brafs-eplpwed mundic placed in a rhombmdal
order, fixed on white opake Quart?;.
XXIX* A elufter of fpangled mundic, with ftems underneath, at
ay p, perpendicular to theft brim, fibrous, lacerated like the body
of a broken nail j brafi-eoloured, feemingly pf the fungoeid kind,
xxx. Crefted with grains rectangular, fpangled i at A A it has twp
ftalks or fuppprters like the roots pf a tooth, brafsHcplour’d, fungoeid.
XXXI, It’s ereft is tufted, the roots pf parallel fibres or threads,
like the fungi; marked tranfrerfly by dime indented furrows j
bmfi-eoloured.
xxxii. Crefted as Fjg. xxx« but not indented; fungpeid.
xxxin. Under a cap of leafy, re&angular mundic, 4* a wavy
girt or bandage, of nmndic lane, furrounding the whole, the
threads perpendicular, crofted and divided into fillets by protuberant
lifts;