lucre, as represented at fig.4. Colowr, when in perfection, a purplish red 
but very frequently faded into various shades of brownish and greenish 
yellow. Substance cartilaginous and firm, rather rigid, adhering, but not 
strongly, to paper in drying. 
(Anns 
By comparing the figure and specific character of this plant 
with those of C. rubrum (Plate CLXXXT.), it will be seen that 
C. botryocarpum is very closely allied indeed to that species: nor 
should I feel disposed, acting on my own judgment, to consider it 
as more than a curious state, or variety, with an anomalous fruit. 
Mrs. Griffiths is, however, of a different opinion, and so are 
Professor Kiitzing and other botanists, to whom specimens have 
been submitted. ‘To the decision of such competent observers 
I yield so far as to publish a figure, at the same time that I 
reserve my original opinion as one which I have not altogether 
laid aside. 
C. botryocarpum is known from C. rubrum by its remarkable 
fruit, consisting of a great number of favella, without involucre, 
heaped together like bunches of grapes; in this respect it agrees 
with C. Deslongchampsii. I have, however, occasionally found 
solitary, involucrate favelle, exactly similar to those of C. rubrum, 
on the same plants which produced clustered fruit on most of 
their branchlets. The colour is generally darker, and more 
purple than in C. rvdrum, and the tips of the branchlets are 
straight. These are the principal characters on which it is pro- 
posed to establish the species. 
C. botryocarpum was discovered by Miss Amelia E. Griffiths in 
1844, in great plenty on Preston rocks, a short distance south 
of Torquay, and has been gathered every subsequent season in 
the same situations and in equal abundance. _ It is in perfection 
in June and July, and begins to decay about the middle of 
September. 
Fig. 1. CeRAMIUM BOoTRYOCARPUM ;—the natural size. 2. Part of a branch, 
with fertile ramuli. 3, Ramulus with ordinary favelle. 4. Ramulus with 
an involucrated favella. 5. Ramulus with tetraspores. 6. A tetraspore :— 
all more or less magnified. 
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