in natural history, denotes a spangle, or thin flake of any substance.

in botany. See FLORAL LEAF.

BRACTEARIA; in natural history, a genus of talcs, composed of small plates in form of spangles, each plate either being very thin, or fiddle into very thin ones.

Of this genus there are a great many species, called, from their different colours, mica aurea, or gold-glimmer; and mica argentea, silver-glimmer, or catsilver, &c.