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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Liny, end, being a foftherby’plant,very flipperie,infomuchthat itis a hard matter'to ftand vponit with outfalling’: itrampeth far abroad,and here and thereis fet with certaine puftvp tuberclesor blad. Og Ofthe Hiftory ofPlanes. Lin3. guifhed intotwo, and deferibed inthe fecondand third places, “Fhe thitd fie'calts Paths lingifo;- femble the Oken leafe, whereofit tooke his name Quercus marina, the {ea Oke : of fome, W.ake mo, latifSimo, craffoquefolio, andthis is marked withthefigure 1. Thefecond he calls Fens arboreus pofchides ; and this you mayfee marked with thefigure 2. This fea Weed (as I haue faid) hath avarious face, for fometimes fromafibrous root, which commonly growethto a pibble ftone, or may, fuffice: fome halfe foot in length, at the top whereof growesout afingle leafe, fometimes anell long, and ders, fullofwinde,which giuethia cracke whenit is broken: the leafe it felfe doth fomewhat te. and Grow: Gall. His vfe in phyficke hath notbeene fet forth, and therefore this bare defeription £ 5 Quercus : :marina fecunda. ea Thongs. P faftened to arocke, it fendeth forth around ftalke feldome fo thicke as ones little finger,and about then it is about the bredth ofones hand, anditends ina fharpe point, fothat itvery well refembles atwo edged fword. Sometimesfromthe fame root come forth two fuchfafhioned leaues; but then’commonly they areleffer. Otherwhiles at the top ofthe ftalke it diuides it felfe into eight, nine, ten, twelue, moreor fewerparts, and that iuft at the top ofthe flalke, and thefe‘neuer come to that length that the fingle leaues do. Nowthis I iudge to be the Fucus polj/ehides of Banhive. That thefe twoarenot feuerall kindes I amcertaine ; for | haue markedboththefe varieties from oneand the fame root,as you mayfeethem here expreft inthe figure. At Margate where they growtheycall themfea Girdles, and that name well befits the fingleone , and the diuided onethey may éall Sea Hangers, for if you do hang the tops dow newards, they doc reafonable well ° efemble the old fafhioned fivord-hangers. Thus much for their fhape+now for their colour, which is not the fame inal! ; for fome are more greenc, and thefe can fearce be dried ; other-fome arewhitith,and thefedo quickly dry,andthen bothin colourand fubftance are {o like parehment, that firch as know them not would at the firft view take them to hé nothing elfe, This is ofa glu- £ 6 Quercus marina tertig, The third fea Wracke, tinous fb ftance, anda little faltith tafte,anddiuers haue told me they are good meate.heing boiled tender, and fo eaten withbutter, vineger,and pepper. $ 8 Alga. £ 7 Quercus marina quarta. Grafle Wracke, Tagged Sea Wracke. % Of this Quercus marina, or Fucus, there are diuers forts, whereofI will gine youthe figures and a briefe hiftorie: the firft ofthefe is onelya varietie ofthe la(t deferibed, differing there-11om inthe narrowneffe ofthe leaues, and largeneffe ofthe fwolne bladders. 7 5 This growes to the length offiue or fix foot,is {mooth and membranous, being fome halfe fingers bredth, and varioufly divided, like wet parchment or leather cut into thongs : this hath no fwolne knots or bladders dike as the former; and is the Fucus marinus fecundus of Dodonaus. 6 This Wrackeor feaweed hath long and flat ftalkes like the former,butthe ftalksare thicke fet with fwolne knots or bladders, out of which fometimes growlittle feaues, in other refpects # is notvnlike the former kindes. Dodoneus makesthis his Facus marinus 3. he leaues ofthis other Wracke, which Dodonaus makes his Facus marinus quarts, atc Nar fower, fmallcr, and much diuided ; and this hath either noneor very fewofthofe {wollenbladders which fomeofthe former kindes haue. 8 This,which Lobelcalleth U4lga marina, hathiointed blacke branched creeping roots of the thickneffe ofonesfinger, which end as it were in diuers ares, or hairy awnes, compoled of wbitith hairy threds fomewhat refembling Spikenard : from the tops of thofe eares forth leaues,long,o4™ feaas the}0rrow, foft, and graffe-like, firft greene, but white whentheyare dry. It growesin the mer. Theyvie it in Italy and other hot countries to packe vp glaffes with, to keepe them from breaking. 9° E . Ofthis Tribe are divers other plants; but I will onely giue you the hiftory of twombrs whichI firft obferued thelaft yeare, going in company with diuers London Apothecaries rey’ (not before extant thal Simples, as farre as Margateinthe Iflandof Tenet; and whofe figures 2 thereand inother p we as plants of{uch enumeration or Jovrnall my eaein of) I fir know c : n 5 : : -~ 1 i, gras GLE ces found. The frft of thefe byreafon of his various growthis by Bauhine in his Proa’ guifhe 190 notfigured or defcribed byany that as yeti This which I giue youin the te nth placeis forementioned om gure and defcriprion in the haxe met with . wherefore I gaue thefi cculent and fungeous plant, of the thickne - rt A 5 lwill here repeate. This is averyfu rie fide with — snequal re ero! is itisofa darké-yellowith colour,and buncheth forth oncue ot ame ties or knots SedStaffe. beingin our companis di ee whereupon M‘. Thomas Hickes ng, but found one or two plants thereot Lome . did not op ferueit growi Qq9999 3 10ot long 7 |
