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resemblance It bears to some of the Fungi. The manner of 

 its o-rowth resembles much Boletus versicolor and Hydnum 

 Daviesiiy &c.; it also resembles the Auricularice in its 

 mode of growth, and like them is smooth on the under 

 surface*. It is, however, unlike them, in having the 

 upper surface smooth j and it is only its situation, and 

 its composition of phosphate of lime and animal gluten, 

 that would determine it to be a Coralline. It is more or less 

 of a deep pink, like C. officinalisy and like that is liable to 

 be bleached. 



* On examining it with the microscope, we see minute cells in transverse 

 rows, somewhat in concentric circles, convex towards the outer edges, very 

 like those formed by Boletus igniarius, English Fungi, fab. side Jlgure. 

 The whole growth is so like a fungus, that those who formerly thought 

 fungi of an animal nature might have considered themselves confirmed in 

 iheir idea by observing this. See Encyclopcedia Brilannica,, FuNGUa. 



