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Show Go ars) —_— Tbeatrum Botanicum. ? 1. Cordiiam album majus @ minus, Trisery TRIBE 14. Guar.56, The Tbeaver of Plants. The greater andthe finer white Coral) 4. Coralliym nigrumfive Antipathes: Blacke Corals : 130 > The blacke Cérall groweth great below, whereit {ticketh to the Rocke,{preading tito fewer branches, buc as \ ==; LSD a = a SS \\ a SSSR SSS UN = {mooth asifthey werepollifhed,and fhining like Jet it {elfe,Thereis faid to be one found thatis yellow,elfe like unto the blacke. §. Coydltinm nigrum hirfutum, Rough briftly blacke Corall. This fortis often found as tall as any man,andof a large fife in the trurieke or body, having fundry blackefprigges like rough briftles, or the aulnes of Corneftanding round aboat it onc above another up tothe toppe. * The P lace and Time. Mott of cHefe Corals’aré found abont AZarfelles, and the Ile of Sardinia; and other plates in the Mediterranean Sea, and feldome on this fideit, and their time is Withthe ofhets. (S S ANN ZEA b, 4 ZA Sw ° The Names, LK Re MIN 5. Covallinn nigrum birfutum. Roughbriltly Blacke Corall, th Kcesa ov in Greeke iglike Wile Coralliem in Latiné,and fo called by ali that have written ofit.and therec&: 7ubfum or'album, cc, is fer for diltinetion \ IY fake,yet the white ismot remeinbred by Diefcorides, Theophraftua, or Ptiny, and but onely by ofmoderne Writetss theblacke forts are called Antipathes and Corallinm nigrmts. The laltis fet forth in the Italian Baldo of Ponas by the nameof the fecond fort of Antiparhes, or blacke hairy Corall, and is called by the Fifhers of Sardinia Sambeggia, ‘\i) The Veri#es. All the forts of Corall doe coole and bine, yet thé white is thought tobe ofa colder operation then the red and the blacke,to be as effcétuall ‘to all purpofes as either of the other : but red Corallis of moft ufe, and is\com- 4. Coraiam nigrum Diofcoridis five Antipathes. Blacke Corail. NU my | NiiNi AWN tiiNy)id ‘ays S \ (| et Ml MC p ANd S SS Y mer a SSM p as (mall, and fome {mailer and finer chen of the red, fo is there ofthe white Corall,other forts of fmallet,or even the red,fome allo of a moft pare white Corall, album alrerum. Album fi fialof/um. Verruce- Luofe white Corall. aS) 3. Corakines not o! This white Corall groweth greater and with blacker armes and ‘branches thenthe laf, but is fubftance being leffefolid and more porous or fpungy then it within, and with fundry:holes onhollow1 the outfide. eR ree flencer 1S”, Sundryother forts of white Gorall have bene obferved by InsperatusofNaples, one fiftulous.ora. : fam p un- pipe, with many branches called (oralliinm album fiftulo(um, Another is bunched out withknots feton alt es f oe {ported withall,called Corallinm verruco[um puntlatnm. A third -+hath‘markes like ftarres, hathcercaine divibons therciy d is of two forts botha greater and a leffer,called loam frelletvim> fourth all fellatum 4. Cor alin * ifthey were joynts andcalled Corallinm al bum articulatum, Gatun. Album itis good to be given ro thofe that have thé falling-fickneffe, or have crampes when it is butned and made into pouther: it dryeth and bindeth more then beféreit did’ ici# alo much commended againft melancholly and fadneffe,and ro rctrefh and comfort the faifitifig{pirits itftayéth the blcedingsof the hemorrhodiall veines,and of wounds,and ofthe men-, firnes,caufing alfo an eafie delivery of the birth, italfo fafteneth loofe teeth, helpeth fore gummes and ulcers in the mouth.arid healerh up-fatile hollow ulcers in otherparts: the afhes theréof being burned, mixed with other medicines for thé eyes hélpéth the watcring,heate andredneffe in them,by cooling and drying up the moifture in them, althéugh Ga/exHath made no mention ofCorall in his booke offimple medicines, yet he appointethitas, an ingredientinto ftindry thedicines,that are for thofe that have the phtificke or coughof the lungs, tending to a con{umption,ahdthat {pit blood, and that have foule running fores or ulcers,and to clean{e Im pofthumes. Y Sd a \ SOL nes SaaS - AWW \ \ the ponther takenin witiés or in Water if they have an agne procureth reft asit is faids NNsSSiN} HH} ther at the mouth or nofe,ot anyother flux of blood in manor woman, atid being often taken in wine orother drinke doth diminith the {peene,it helpeth alfo the gonorrhea in memand the whites in women, it likewife helpeth themmuch thatare troubled with the {topping of their water, or hardly makeitbuc by droppes, and alfo thofe that have cormenting paines of the ftone in the bladder, if the pouther when itis burnt be takenin drinke : S fH) ni |4) AD rte / ff GZ Mf 1 YN. iY Af i) oD il mended to be very effeCtuall for thofe that {pit blood, or that bleedé much ei- a tah. pea oe eel Cuarv. deere. S a a tas =Senet LEVI, Alie marine plante. Other Sea Plants, Bere yet remainé fome otherforts of Sea plants, which are many of them ofa {tony fabltance, or crufted overlike as if they werefo, although while they are inthe water, they growlike unto trees of divers (hapes and formes, and becaule there isnonfe in Phyficke knowne of them, nor yet for anyother purpofe then to behold the variable workes of nature, or rather of the God of naturein the Sea, and to feede the mindesof the cutious, 1 will be breefe in them,andbut onely fhew you them. ¥. Abjeswmarina, The Sea Fite: This as Clufius hath ferit downe (whofotind it on’ the Sea (hore of Flanders, ) groweth upon Oyfter or Mut fell thels, feldome above an handfull high, very nééfely refembling 4 low of dwarfe Firre tree, with branches fet in order, being {mall and brittlescompofed asit were of feales, fome Being Alar atid Grhers round compafling the branchesall about, Lobe/referreth it to the Corallites;calling it u/tus Coralloides alter, 2. Cupreffns marina, The Sea Cyprefie, This alfo is fo like unto the {mall Cypreffe treé,as hothing'¢an be more; Havin brahthes fet round but with: out order,and rifing upwards; asthe {prigs of the Cypreffe doth, ahd with leaves thereon in the fame fo me and mannet :. this having beene long kept ina paper bookejand {ce in wacet, will fpread it felfe abroad, and thew the forineas it grew. 3. Myrica & Evica marina, Sex Tamariske and Sea Heath Others alo he fairh he found growing on the like (hels,’ that were likéfome mto Tamariske, and fome unto Heath,being but of a fingers Jength, with (hort branches covered dvér with’ 4 hoary faltneffe of the Sea, 4: Refedavoarinn, Bafe wilde Rocket ofthe Sea. Clafius ibis fixt bookeof E+orickes and fixe Chapter Taith,he had chis ac Am/ferdam,andforthe rareneffe,there fet it forchtd beof a hard wooddy fabftanite,crufted over with the white faltneffe of the Sea, being not the whole plarit,but much of the lower parts, broken away yet contaitiing findry branches, coveted npwards with fundry {mall rough caps of veflelt hahgifig downewatds,of a whitifiafh colour, not much unlike unto the feede veffels (eda when they are ripe, but much leffé, and fo brittle ‘that they mightbe rubbed to pouther bet weene ones |
