^85 Phyfical Ohfervattons &c. 



may take Notice further, that thefe Protuberances are generally 

 full of a milky, clammy Juice, (perhaps juft fecreted by the 

 little Roots) which in a fmall Time coagulates, then becomes 

 like unto Bees Wax, in Colour and Confiftence, and afterwards, 

 as I conjeolure, is affimilated into the Subftance of the Coral 

 or Lithofhyton itfelf 

 rhed\jfcrmt ^g ]s[ature hath not allowed thefe marine Plants one larse 



Method ofVe- ,,, λ r r Λ Ύ Ji -ri, 



gctation be- Root, as It hath d. ne to thole ot the Land, how wilely hath 



^v'unl\vd itfupplyed That Mechanifm by a Number of little ones, which 



linefiXi. are diftributed, all over the Plant, in fo juft a Proportion, 



that they are lodged thicker upon the Branches, where the 



Vegetation is principally carried on, than in the Trunk, where 



it is more at a Stand, and which therefore is often found naked, 



and feldom increafmg in the fame Proportion with the Branches. 



The Terreflrial Plants could not fubiift without an u^p^aratiis 



of great and extenfive Roots; becaufe they are not only to be 



hereby fupported againft the A^'iolence of the Wind , which 



would otherwife blow them down; but their Food alfo is to be 



fetcht at a great Diftance. Whereas the marine A^egetables, 



as they are more fecurely placed, fo they lye within a nearer 



Reach of their Food, growing as it were in the Midft of Plenty, 



and therefore an ^pparaUis of the former Kind, muft have 



been unnecelTary, either to nourifli or fupport them. 



Γέ. Red Sea The Fucufes, which I have mentioned, feem to have given 



Weed/ Sea thc Name oiSupb or Soupb to this Sea, being otherwife called, 



.iu scnit,rc. ^^^ ^^^ ^^ EdoM, and improperly, the Red Sea, by taking 



Edoin' for an Appellative. The Word η^σ is alfo rendred Flags 

 by our Tranflators, {Ex, x. 8. and Ifa.i^.6.) and Juncus or 

 Juncetum by Buxtorf. I did not obferve any other Species of 

 of theFlag-Kind ; but there are feveral Thickets oftheArundina- 

 ceous Plants, at fome fmall Diftances from, though never, as 

 far as I could perceive, either upon the immediate Banks, or 

 growing out of the Red Sea. We cannot then well fuppofe, 

 that this Sea ihould receive a Name from a Produdion, which 



1 Epw3p* ^ihdicM ΕχΛίΙθχ, ίκ ώτ8 -ί χ£?(άί η ζοθίκ i&'^i'Hif mit aww, ά?λ' «κ νιπ! hSfot ΕΡΤΘΡΑ, (i.e. 

 Edom, qui lingua fanfta e{t,3poii leu rubrum fignificat) tid ■atS7trym<u h^^jastisutT,! -nh -j Tnh τι- 

 mii. Suid. in voce. Vid. Nic. Fuller. Miiccll. Sacra. 1. 4. cap. 20. Pndcanx\ Conn. Vol. i. 

 p. 1 5•. Ed. 10. Me>» ^ li ;7^(£j^^λ«•3o^ FpU3pa StiheLTiav tiitttr J ^έλα-^ΛΥ l(u5fiv. to ^aV yj wjeMimr-rt 

 ημιΰνΗ Tiw θάλατται- hJ)>cf li Ji iLA 'τηΧφητο. ΛλοΓ ί ς>ιθ«<π)ί ^nw h ti-nif. f 57 Λ' ?»«, -n μ iii tiJ 



Άις'ΜΊΛΤ). Agatharftd. apud Fhot. Biblioth. p. 1324• Ed. P. Steph. 



doth 



