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resemblance it bears to some of the Fungi. The manner of 
its growth resembles much Boletus versicolor and Hydnum 
Daviesii, &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; 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. officinalis, and like that is liable to 
he bleached. 
1 1* ° n 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 igmarius, English Fungi, tati./JZside fgure. 
The whole growth is so like a fungus, that those who formerly thought 
fungi of an animal nature might have considered themselves confirmed in 
their idea by observing this. See Bwyctopadia Britarmica, Fungus. 
