reduced, with a mark of doubt ; but this appears justly enough
to deserve to be sustained. P e r s o o n , in his Mycologia Eu-
ropæa, had already united Cladohotryum, Virgaria, Stacliy-
lidium and Verticillium ; and my friend M. A d o l i ^ h e B r o n g -
NiART has expressed his opinion that Botrytis should include
Pénicillium, Cladohotryum aud Stachylidium ; and that Virgaria
should form a distinct genus, comprehending Haplaria
and Acladium.
The specimens discovered by Captain C a r m i c h a e i . had a
different appearance from that which is usually presented by this
plant ; the branches were here and there united longitudinally
among themselves, half a dozen distinct plants being thus sometimes
connected together in the most irregular manner. This
circumstance induced Captain C a r m i c h a e l to name his
plant Botrytis inosculans, but, as in all other respects it did
not differ from the true B. nigra, and, besides, had rather the
aspect of disease or accident, I have hesitated to retain it as a
species.
Fig. 1. B. nigra ; natural size. Fig. 2. Plants and sporidia, magnified.