OR KING'S SPEAR:** See Botany Index.

**ASPHERELATA,** in *Natural History,* are semi-metallic foils, fusible by fire, and not malleable in their purest state, being in their native state intimately mixed with sulphur and other adventitious matter, and reduced to what are called ores.

Of this series of foils there are only five bodies, each of which makes a distinct genus; viz. antimony, bismuth, cobalt, zinc, and quicksilver.