CURL-CLOUD. The old name in Latin by Mr. Howard, is Cirrus, a curl; Cirrulus and curl beling the diminutive.

STACKEN-CLOUD, or Cumulus, from the verb to stack, to heap up.

FALL-CLOUD, or Stratus; being the falling, or subsidence of watery particles in the evening.

SONDER-CLOUD, or Cirrocumulus, is a sundered cloud, made up of separated orbs. The characteristick of this cloud being the gathering together into a bed, of little clouds, yet so far assunder as not to touch.

WANE-CLOUD, or Cirrostratus; from the waning or subsiding state of this cloud in all its forms.

TWAIN-CLOUD, or Cumulostratus; made often by the twinning or uniting of two clouds together.

RAIN-CLOUD, or Nimbus, speaks for itself. So we can have Storm-cloud, Thunder-cloud, &c.

MOON-RING, or Halo; a ring including an area around the Moon.

SUN-RING, the same about the Sun, Solar Halo.

MOON-BURR, a fleecy or confused burr about the Moon. The old name is Corona. So we have Sunburr, Double Moon-ring, Threefold Moon-ring, coloured Sun-ring, &c.

MOCK-SUN, or Parahelion.

MOCK-MOON, or Paraselene.

MOON-CROWN: this may answer to the Halo Discoides of my Nomenclature.

RAINBOW, retains its old name instead of Iris.

RAIN-RAY, the Rabdi divergenses of my Name-list.

CONE-RAY, the Rabdus pyramidalis of the same.

SHOOT-FLAME, or shooting, or falling star, instead of meteor. Thus we can have White-tailed, Shoot-flame, &c. instead of Caudate Meteor.

WISP-FLAME, or Ignis fatuus.

POLE-STREAMER, or Northern-light. The Aurora being Australis as well as Borealis.

BLOOMEN-FLAME, the electric flame seen about flowers, particularly the evening primrose, described in my Ros. Atm. Phaen. &c.