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Show Lheatram Botanicam.—__ __Tripeip eens <= 4, Refeda marina, Bale wild Rocket of the Seas The Theater ofPlants. 6, Abrotonvidés faxea five abrotoniFaminefits planta faxta. Stony Layander Cotten. Cwar.57. 1303 Ta Salix.maring. The Sea Willow, SAMs eS i. CAN,QU Ae Tact SW x wy Se aS QO s AYAe NY NS AN 2 Co Sea Firre.arid Cyprefic, TRiBe14 CS e 2, Abies @ Cupre//ia marine. ad “Onar.56i ¢. Hipporis faxed. Stony Sea Horfetaile. W///y,' to W//WS RS iii, Ui prs 5. Hippuris faxed,’ growing, upon fhe This likewife feemed to grow to fome Rocke, a ptece of a brownefhining colour, elfe all white cruith a ftony matter, the middle or inner part be= marine & Umbilicus marinu s, The Sea Navell,, The Vertues. ing wooddy, 6, Abrotonoides faxeafive Abrotonifemine fimilis planta {axea.. Stony Lavander Cotton» is wholly of a tony fubftance,rifing up a foote high ndrybranches, yet joyning.as it were-clof¢ ¢ bottome of them, and they, againe {pread 2 g ler (prigs, which containe five orfixe, or more rowes of fhort hollow leaveslike pipes, almoftlikeunto es of Lavender Cotton,fome part. of the lowerleaves being broken the upper part was whole, being ofa ith coloursthe reit white, of a ftony falt fubftance, fhewing theoriginall to be the Sea. There is nothing extantof the properties of any of thé formérrecited plants,and tutby Lobel, none ofthis who yet would affimilare {ome of the properties of Diefcorides his e4ndroface unto this, that is, TheSea Willow. wethlikewife upon Oyfter thels orthe like,rifing up with fundry ftalkes; ofa grayith red colour, and ong leaves like Willow leaves, whichlye on the water, fome being fmooth, and fomea little to provukeurine, and to digelt the humoors gathered to the joynts, procuring painesand aches,gontes,andthelike, wee knowfaith Lobe/ that this doth binde the belly,fo farre of it is fromloofening it,1s fome havethought. Ihave knowne fome toput this {tone into the Unenentum Citrinumbecaule itis called Umbilicus marinus yet L have feene a fort that isreddith. or dented about che edges,among which rifeal{o other ftalkes bearing flowers like thofe of the Willow, Cuar. LVIL with eany:points like the fcalesiof the catkins,whenitis ready to bloome. Spongie & [pongiofe plante, 8,, eAndroface Matthioli five Cotyledon marina & Umbilicus marinus... TheSea Navell; _ Leaft this Sca plant (if you will {0 call itor what elfeyon pleafe )fhould be quite Jeftont of this Claffis,: let me n, in the end of this Chapter, being a fea excreflence, formedlike {mall round fawfers, hallowifhin - unto a Navell,and:borneup by,{mall {mooth footeltalkes about two inches long.every one by it fe water,-ut afterwards grow as white almoft as Corall, orthe like, and of a {tony fubltancee ‘This 1s gene called Androface Matrhioli bydivers apthours: becanfe he firlt {et it forth,being fent him from Pifa by Lucas #;for the right, and Lobel (eemeth to be of the fame minde al{o,faying he can finde no other herbe that com met fo ncere thereunto,calling ic Catyledon foliofum marinum e& Vmpbilicys marints Mon[pelienfibus ; but Cefale pins we feometh gave ita truer name,calling ir Fungus warinus minimus For it can no way agree in my judgement unto the Androface of Disfcorides, if we will beleeve heknew the thing he wrote of, for he faith, it hath no leafe but a buske withfedeim it,and doth appropriate whereunto both huske and {eede is good, butthis plant hath ne- ver beene obferved to beare huskeor feede,for being a {tony Sea excreflence, as Corall and many other se grow! Spunges and Spongious plants. aot Efides the Sponges themfelves,which are of {undry diffcring formes and colours, ther€ are alfo many > 2 fomefone,or rocke, on {hell in. the Sea,orfale paoles.being ofa pale grecnifhafh colour, while they grow ? 8. Mndyoface Matthiolt five Cotyle don Androface, is not yet found out and made knowne for any thing that I cab underftand,and therefore let AZatthiolws {till have the honour of this Sea plant. thereof remaining tothe branch that contained findry prigges leaning or bending one way, full of knots ike Isftonés,&c. inthe Sea how fhouldit be expected to beare any {eede, yet Lobel and others would wreftle, curtall, and alter ‘Dio/corides rext,tomake it ferve their turne,butafluredly the true Stony Sea Horfetaile: 70 Salix marina. \ 6 ther Sea Excreffences, (whether I fhould call them plants or no know not well)that are of a Sponubftance, which laftly I muft bring to your view, 1, Spongin marina fualiés. The ordinary Sponges, cic ordinary Sponges that we have daily ufeof, are fome bigger others lefler, fome round; fome flat, fome llow colonr, others pale yellow or almoft white, fome alfoclofe and hard, others more loofe and 4 {ome of a fine thinne fubftancé,and others ofa courfer and thicker, Bawhinus relateth that fome forts alled Hircine, another Velarts,another Ramofa fiftulofa, with divers other names, I will therefore onely uthat Sponges like other excreffences'are bred in the Sea,growing from fome {tone, Rocke, &c. or the . {it {elfe, and bythe Seas operation in fomeplaces differing from others, brought to the forme as vel as colonr, |