Min. [CROSS- 3 b.] A name given to CHIASTOLITE; also to the minerals STAUROLITE and HARMOTOME, from the cruciform arrangement of the crystals.
1770. trans. Cronstedts Min., 83.
1771. Hill, Fossils Arranged, 152.
1796. Kirwan, Min., I. 282.
1814. Allan, Min. Nomen.