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Show 2. Spongia infundibuliforma, @ Funnelllike Spong. The Theater ofPlants: TrrBet4, Cuar.57. 6. Arba/iula marina {pongiofa Coralloides, 5.Spongta ramo/a fitulofa Venta. ‘The Venetian Sea hollow Sponges, A, Spongie Corall like tree. f taal. \\ "/ vy) "4 ( Ny Wg ZZ q UD Uy XU), q , ‘ s aIY NUp ) ) WSEAS. \ Kit ee = gy mp Llp, “a >” yy UM G \ GA G CG &. MN ;2 7T ett Tun trata{i XQSlime) quis,es Tp,> D> SS \\_. r eee’ Kays ky S Po Gp» % Bs S 1, Spongia marina nfualis, The ordinary Sea Sponges. Ny \TON NN “Trip EI [heatrum Botanicum.— 1304,© HAP. 57° Q Ung 3¥ Spongiaramofa Britanica ‘The branched Englith Sponges arav.e/a altcra Anglica, anched Englith Sea Sponge. 3 > Spengia vamoa Britanica, The branchéd Exglif Spong. you This faith Lobel T found in the Ile of Portland,amongother Seaexcrements, which for {ubRance and colour, would fay it was neere a Coralline, would fay was a Sponge,butif youmarkethe forme of branches init, you Some would take forit wasnecre a handfull anda halfehigh, full of bli (ters, foftand eafie to be bowed any way. co-, hat waslike unto Corall without leaves, growing hardchanging the , neither flony; colour that it holdeth, béing as all know of a foft, fubftance of wooll or cloth fo wrought wooddy,nor herbe like : but rather like a peece receive and hol: to ready together by nature, that being full of holes, it is as tt much water and by preffing or wringing ready to yeeld ic ott againe, but is driven into the encreafeth in the water, itgathereth into ic, or elfe there nfually found therein, deholes thereof divers {mall gritty ftones, which are by the receipt claring the breeding thereof, not to be farre from the ground, de bifforia animaa ofthefe tones. Ariffotle in his fifth booke and 16.Chapter. had fence in Hiums faith that divers did thinke and fayin his time that Sponges them, and plucke them,for that (as they fay) they would fhrinke if any didwhen the {urges of werc hard tobe pulled up, and that they doe fo likewile, tut faich Ariffotle in the the Sea would breake them off from their refidence, and thofe were fameplace, divers did doubt of the trueth of that relation, bold toinfert this proofe of Arithey that dweltat Torosna, have beene and the that hold Sponges, frotle in this place,to refure the opinion ofthofethough affirmed in Ari/fotles liké to beZoophyte,(enfirive creatures, forall better time,yet doubred of them alfo: and therefore wee that have beeneand hue; both of Divine taueht,and ina Schoole offarre greater knowledgts. manethings,may well cat of fuchfond concei 2, Spongiainfundibnli forma, Funnell like Sponge. a very hard cleaving to "This Sponge C/u(ims hathfet forth to have feene broad above and narrow beblacke {tone of twelve pound weight, and was a funcll, or to the flower ofan ore low,where‘it grew to the {tone like unto alfo were fo turned inwards yet not of an equall heightat the brims, which Onefaith Cl/afims, Ire~ that they feemed tobe like leaves foulded inwards.’ did moftexaétly refemblethe that lier, ac’©Mompe lived I while fiw I micinber 3. Spongia forme of a very large hat. this to. be the I/ados Plocamon ofPlinyt ly to be the Awtipathes or blacke Corall of Dioe lour to be blacke,and readyco breakeif it fall, which is morelike feorides. 4»: Spongiofa marina Anglica planta nodofa, The Englifh foft Séa ragged ftaffe. Affociates,. ina Thisfoft Spongie plant hathbeene tound on our Kevsif Sea fhore, by Mafter Johnfon and his. length,fer with many fimpling voyage tothofe parts,andis about the thickeneffe of ones thumbe,about a foorein and ofa foft tuberous, uneven or knagged excreflences onall fides,like unto fhort branches, being very fappy, and among but broken, Spongiousfub{tance,and ofa brownithyellow colour: it was not obferved growing, other fuchlike things caft upon the fhore. 5+ Spongiaramo(a fiffulofaVencta. The Venetian Seahollow Sponge. with ftalkes, and * The Venetian kinde groweth on Rockesin the Sealike other excreflences,rifing up as it were breaking out on all fides into fundry (hort branches, the fubftance whereof is Spongy, and hollow, asfoft atthe into firft,as the crumme ofbread, which may then be madeinto pafte,and afterwards being dry, may bee made outher. 6. Arbufcula marina {pongiofa Coralloides. A Spongie Corall like tree, : and {even inches From the largenefle hereof Cl#fivw callecth this a fhrubbe or low tree,being three foote high, of a Spongie {ubftance,and white compaffe at the bottome, which althoughit feemed firme and folid,yet wasbut and cutting like unto dry Ginger:both the trunck or body with the manybranches thereon, werefet full of knobs, feeming the branches themfelves ending in greater, which wete {pongy on the infide,but without any feede in the barke places,and marked on the outfidelike ftasres. The whole plant was covered witha thinne knobbyreddifh which had (which colour C/ufite who firlt fet it forth,doubted was not naturall, becaufe he faw others the like a white coate) but of fo falta talte, that che faleic felfe did not exceede it. Withina while after ( C/ufus faith) Altera, he faw another whiclf was fix foote high or more,being wholly flat and halfe a foote broad and two inches thicke, {et with branches and knobs in the like manner. The Place;Timeand Navies: Ae Sciently declared in their deferiptions,farthat I fhall not néede furtherto infift thereon. -The Grecians 1 The Latines Spoagiasand {odoeboth the Italians and Spaniards, The Arabians Afferagi albaivi or callir albar. The French Efponge, The Germanes B ad{chsvam. ; Teeee The |