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An Appendix to 





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Of the Sea Feather. 





UMyritfbfllHm marinum. 



The Sea Feather. 



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Myrtofkyllt 



Cortufo 



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conje Sure by the pidwe tbi ll T * 

 cubit mgh,hauing a ftu gh ft , k L^ 

 entlyflende^ 



thofe of Fern but far finer.bending their 

 tops h ke Rebranches of the PalAofl 

 yellowifh colour : the top of the ftal ke a- 

 domed with leiTcr leaues ended in certain 

 fcales or cloues framed into an head 

 which are found tocontainno other feed 

 than tender plants already formed,(haped 

 like the old one : which falling fink to the 

 bottom of the fea, aad there take root and 

 grow, and fo become of the fame magni- 

 tude as the old one from whence they 

 came. The ftalk is faftned with raoft {len- 

 der and more than capillary fibres,in Aed 

 of a root,not vpon rocks and oifter (hells, 

 as moll other lea plants are , but on fand 

 or mud in the bottom of the fea:this ftalk 



9 m m h ^ a ■ & »_ a a — 



fle 



lefle brittle than 





Matvveed 



igh and flexible 



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m The Place. 





Itgroweth in the deepeft fVreames of eke Illyr 

 3r other inftruments, which they call Sp 



hooks 



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fa, whence the fifliermen draw it forth with 



nrhnlp nlant rhnuoh dried retains thefa- 



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^r 7 he Names. 



The Italian fifhermen call it renacki$ delkNinfefxA Palvta de Nemno : f< 



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&Ko,Sctttro di Net- 



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They fay it is good againft the virulent bites of fea Serpents,and the venomous ftings or pucks 



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of fifties 

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nppiiea to laiaii green wounas it cure* iucm m w^ i^wwm *<^ 



Com fas vmt^that he had made triall thereof for the killing and 



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efficacie than any Coralline^nd that giuenin lefle 



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Of the Sea Fan. 







^ The Defcripw* 



THis elegant ftirub groweth vpon the rocks of the fea (where it is ^ m f im f^mci «^ 

 water) in diuers places . for it hath been brought both from the Eaft and VV en . Gh p 

 as I haue bin informed it is to be found in great plenty vpoo the rocks at the Bumiuaa ^ I$ 



