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The Natural Fiftory of Jamaica. 
Tab. 20, 
Fig. 4. 
Tab, 22. 
Fig. 8. 
by means of the Winds and Currents in feveral places, and is no certain 
fign of the place where a Ship is, as is thought by many People. 
The Ufes of it are mentioned in Acoffa, to be eaten greedily by Goats 
and to be pickled with Salt and Vinegar, and fo ufed inftead of Sampier 
when it is wanted, and that a Seaman much troubled with Sand and grofs 
Humors, eating of it raw and boiled found fo much benefit by it, that he 
carried it with him to Land, to ule there for the {ame purpofes. 
XXIV. Leaticula marina folizs latis brevibus ferratis. Cat. p. 5. 
This is exa@ly the fame with the former, only the Leaves are not over 
half fo long, and twice as broad, being about three quarters of an Inch long 
and about a third of an Inch broad, ferrated, and having Bladders like it, 
being very thin and tran{parent. 
It is frequently caft on the Shores of this Ifland. 
XXIU. Lenticula marina foliis latis breviffimifque. Cat. p. 5. 
This is the {ame withthe two preceding, only the Leaves are more nume- 
rous, being very thick fet, fhorter, and not altogether fo broad as the im- 
mediately preceding, neitheris it(for the moft part) ferrated, being of a very 
dark brown Colour, and having fmaller round Bladders. 
Ic grows very plentifully on the Rocks covered with the Salt-water, 
whence it is fometimes caft by the Waves on the Shore. 
XXIV. Fucus feniculaceus, feu coralloides lenta feniculacea, cauliculis longiori= 
bus gracilioribus Cy denfioribus. Cat. p. 5. Tab.2r0. Fig. 7. 
The Root of this is broad, {ticking to, or incruftating Stones in the bot- 
tom of the Sea, in which it grows. The Stalks are feveral, rifing from its 
Bafe, two or threeInehes long, being divided into feveral Branches, which 
are round, {mooth, and fomething like Fennel, branched into Twigs, of 
a ftrong Sea fmell, and of a purple, whitifh, or yellowifh Colour, like 
the Coralloides lenta faniculacea of F.B. only the Stalks are fienderer, 
more numerous, and not fo much branch’d or curled. 
[ found it onthe greater Stones under Water, near the Bridge at Paffage 
Fort. , 
Tab. 20. Fig. 7. Shewsit in its natural bignefs and magnifrd. 
XXV. Fucus feniculaceus, few coralloides lenta faniculacea minor. Cat. p- 5. 
Tab. 20. Fig. 8. : 
This fixes ‘its felf very firmly to the Rocks and.Stones covered with the 
Sea-water, by feveral Filaments, from whence rifes many roundifh, crooked, 
very {mall, pellucid, pale yellow Stalks, branched into {maller, or almoft ca- 
pillary Twigs, being in all not much over an Inch long, tough, not crackling 
under the Teeth, and having fometimes a white Cruft over it, though for 
the moft part none; fimelling ftrong of the Sea, and looking exactly like 
the Coralloides lenta feniculaceaof F.B. only in every thing {maller. 
Ic grew on the Rocks under the Sea-water about this Ifland, whence it 
was very often caft upon the Shore. 
Tab 20. Fig. 8. Shews it inits natural bignefS, and magnif’d. 
XXVI. Fucus feniculaceus minimus. Cat. p. 5. 
This was about an {nch in Circumference, being made up of many {mall 
Stalks of a purple Colour, round like thofe of Fennel, and obferving the 
like manner of divifion in the leaves as it, for which reafonI put it here, 
and not among the Mufci, though it-be fo {mall as to require a Microfcope 
to view its parts. - 
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