The Natural Firfiory of Jamaica. 
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It was thrown up amongft the other Recrements of the Sea, along the 
Shores of this Ifland. 
XXVIII. Fucus minimus denticulatustriangularis. Cat p. 5. Tab 20. Fig 9. 
From a broad Bafe.or beginning rifes up a Stalk, woody, tough, of a 
yellowifh purple Colour, almoft round, about two or three Inches high di- 
vided into many Branches, which are for the moft part crufted over with 
a White Coralline fubftance, and have many deep incifures, {mall Teeth, or 
harmlefs Prickles, in three rows along its edges, being for the moft part 
Toanguat, Smelling very much of the Sea, and not crackling under the 
eeth. Hid 
Jt is frequently caft up on all the Shores of this. Ifland. 
In Zab. 20. Fig.9. It is reprefented in its due bignefs, and magnif’d. 
XXVIII. Fucus marinus coralloides minor fungofus albidus teres (egmentis in 
fummitate planis. Cat.p.5. Tab. r0..Fig. 10. Ax corallina fiftulofa flexilis (ew 
“corallinageniculata mollis Americana fegmentis latis  compreffis. Pluken. Tab. 
168. Fig. 4.2 Almag. p. 118 ? | 
From the fame beginning rife two or three round Stalks, about an Inch 
and a half high, being bigger than thofe of Shop Coralline, white, fun- 
gous, not crackling under the Teeth, divided into feveral Branches and Twigs 
on every hand, they being at cop flat or plain, and very thin, of a white 
Colour, and. differing .from thofe underneath, which are roundifh, all, of 
them {melling of the Sea. | | 
It is thrown up by the Waves on the Banks of the Sca in feveral places. 
XXIX. Alga anguftifolia vitrariorum. C. B.. pin. p. 364. Cat. pe 5 
I found this fort of GrafS with its Roots growing injthe,oazy Grounds 
inthe bottom of the Seca, off of Point Pelican'near Port Royal; and I am apt 
to believe that growing there the fame with ours in England, to be different, 
viz. much broader than that about Montpelier and Venice, defcrib'd by F.B. 
and both of them from a third fort-of it I. found here, which was much 
narrower than any of thefe Kinds, and is frequently thrown up on the Shores 
of the Ifland with the other Excrements of the Sea, which therefore may 
be call'd 
XXX. Alga marina graminca anguftiffimo folio. 
Cuthions ftuft with this are thought, by fome, good for hydropick and 
gouty People. Ce/alp. 
It is ufed to {tuff Beds, to wrap Glaflesin, and tomake Hay. Luzd. 
Mats made of it, or otherwile ufed in bedding it deftroys Buggs, which 
is by its{mell. Lacuna. 
XXXL Alga Funcea five juncus marinus radice alba geniculata, Cat. p. 5- 
Tab. 22. Fig. 5. Manati Grafs. Corallina aut potins alga nodofa, vitriariorum 
amula f{egmentis tubulofis, the Maniztee Grafs, Famacenfibus dicta. Pluken. Almag. 
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: This (eemed to be a fort of Ruth growing at the bottom of the Sea. It 
had a jointed round Root, whitifh without, andfending out at joints feveral 
hairy, white Filaments to draw its Nourifhment. From thence;{prang feveral 
Foot long, round, green Ruthes, not fo big as a Hens Quill, when wet be- 
ing round and hard, but when dry fhrivelled and black. 
’Twas yery plentifully floating along the Coaft of the Ifland by Point 
Pedro, and is thought, with the foregoing Alge, to be the Food of the Fifh 
Manatt. | 
R XXXII. Fucus 
