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Lhe Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
XXXII. Fucus maritimus gallo pavonis pennas referenss C.B. prod p. 155+ 
Cat. Pp: A. 
This grows flicking to the Stones in the bottom of the Sea, -wherice it is 
thrown on Shore in feveral places about Fort Royal; and of it thete isa va- 
riety, with thicker and whitcr Leaves, which is nothing but an incruftation 
of a Coralline white Matter over it. 
XXXIV. Alea latifolia prima hive mufcus marinus lactuce folio. CG. B. pin. 
p. 364. Cat. p.5. Lichen Marinus Platy phyllos. Plukenet.. Alm. p. 216. Pucus 
marinus lailuce folto. Bob. hift. Ox. part. 3: p. 645. Fucus lactuce folio. 
Tournefort el. Lot. p. 443. Injt. p.568. Oyler green. ode! 
This is commonly thrown wp on all the Shores of this Tfland. = -— 
It is adflringent and drying, hindering all Fluxions, as Gout, ere. Cefalp. 
Maith. 
The Bryow Thalaffion, of Theophraffus and Pliny, is called in Northumbere 
land Slanke, which in Lent the Poor People Seeth, and that with’ Leeks 
and Onions: they put ic in a Pot, and fmore it as they call it, and then 
it looketh black, and then put they Ontons to it, and eat: it. Turner. 
XXXIV. Pila marina fubrotunds, compreffa, mollis. Cat. p. 6. Tab. 23. 
Fre.t. | 
“This was very foft, roundifh, comprefs’d, of an Inch and an half Diame 
ter, white, woolly, and made up of innumerable fhort white Filaménts, ih- 
terwoven one-within another, flicking to a Facas fenicwlagens. ~ It~ was {ome- 
thing like the Alege pomum MonJpelienfium, J. B. only not fo round, being 
comprefled, and mote foft. Perhaps it may -be a Ball voided~out of the 
Stomach of fome Fifh. : ify 7 a | 
{ found it on the Shore in feveral places, where it had been'thrown up by 
the Waves of the Sca. 3 3 iy OVS 
XXXV. Spongia globofa Tmperat. p. 365. C.B. pin. p. 368. J. B. tom. 3. 
lib. 39. p. 816. Cat. p. 6. (OhLg 
This in its inward texture was exactly like a Sponge, when preft yielding, 
and when not preft, by its elaflicity, gaining again its former Dimenfions, 
being roundifh oblong, not fo big as ones Fift, and having many round 
holes or cavities, as large as a Goofe Quill, in its body, and on its top, where 
were feveral extant blunc ends ftanding up, making irs Surface~ wneven, 
being fomewhat harder than the ordinary Sponge, and not fo°fit- for ufe: 
{melling very much of the Sea; like ovhersoF this Kind. 0) 
It is frequently thrown upoh the Sea-Bahks by.the Waves.» — 
XXXVI. Spongia dura fen [puria major, alba, fiftulofa, filris craffioribus. 
Cat.p: 6. Tab. 23. Fig. 2. x “ > 
This was five Inches long, near as big aS ones Atm or Wrift, being hollow 
within, fomething flat and comprefs d being madeup of Filaments, much like 
the former, only they are much ftronger more lignofe or woody, and of a 
paler Colour, with larger holes in it, but whither it be a variety of that, or 
a*differing Plant, 1 cannot cell, but am inclinable to think that ’tis quire 
differing. i! | 
It was thrown up by the Sea Waves on its Shores in feveral places. 
XXXVI, Spongia dura fen-fpuria maxima ramofa fiftulfa. Cat. “p. 6. Lab. 
24. Fig.1. An Srongia Americana capitata cy dignitata. Plum. Tonrmef: Taft. 
p. 5762 An rarifimum {pongie genus. Rait hift, app. p. 1850 2 Sponcia novi orbts 
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