Min. [L.; = ‘flower of iron.’] A coralloid variety of aragonite, often found with iron ore.
1748. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Fossils, 344. This Species is in its efflorescent and ramose states called by different authors the Fluor Eniæformis, Fluor Strigatus, and Flos Ferri.
1878. P. H. Lawrence, trans. Cotta’s Rocks Class., 51. Flos-ferri is formed in great perfection in the Styrian iron mines.
