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British Mineralogy
CCLIX
Silex fulgens
Stilbite, or Foliated Zeolite
- Class 2. Earths.
- Order 1. Homogeneous.
- Gen. 4. Silex.
- Spec. Stilbite.
- Syn.
- Stilbite. Haüy, 3. 161. Wern. Catal. 267.
- Blattriger Zeolith. Emmerl. 1. 204.
- Foliated Zeolite. Thomson, 4. 316.
- Zeolith. Kirw. 1. 278.
- Zeolithe nacrée. Lameth. 2. 305.
The prisms in this specimen are four-sided, and the two opposite sides that are parallel to the laminæ are broader than the other two; they are terminated by a four-sided pyramid with rhomboidal faces, which in some crystals are truncated at the apex. They line an irregular cavity in a fragment of a Basaltic column from the Giant’s Causeway. I was favoured with it by John Templeton, Esq.
