5 86" Thyfical Ohjervations 6cc. 



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 Confidence, and afterwards, 

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

 or Ltthofhyton itfelf 

 Thediff.revt ^g ]s[ature hath not allowed thefe marine Plants one lars;e 



Method of Ve- r r t T i ^ 



getation he- Root, 35 it hath dottc to thofe of the Land, how wifely hath 



tw':xttheLa7;d ' r t • r- i ikT 1 r T i 



pw a>^d itfupplyed That Mechanifm by aJNumber or little ones, which 



vin^ BodL. 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 increafing in the fame Proportion with the Branches. 



The Terre final Plants could not fubfift without an u4pparatt^s 



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



hereby fupported againft the Violence of the Wind , which 



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



fetcht at a great Diftance. Whereas the marine Vegetables, 



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



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



and therefore an y^pparatm of the former Kind, muft have 



been unneceflary, either to nourifli or fupport them. 



r/.. Red Sea Xhe Fucufes, which I have mentioned, feem to have given 



Weedy Sea thc Name oi' Suph or Soupb to this Sea, being otherwife called, 



:» smpuri. ^^^ ^^^ ^^ Edom, and improperly, the Red Sea, by taking 



Edom' for an Appellative. The Word «)d is alfo rendred Flags 

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

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

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

 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 fhould receive a Name from a Produftion, which 



I Epu3pa ^AhUDjA £)ait3»t, KK ^ <? j^ejiwf TO go.&/K n^^iifif VHf oiojTUJt, *?x' ix. vvof hffif EPT0PA, (i.e. 

 Edom, qui lingua fanfta Eji/Spoi' feu rubrum fignificat) "Hw <!!t$a>iyot't(ut hSuun^daufm -nh ij -nls li- 

 Tnis. Su'id. in voce. Vid. Wic. Fuller. Mifccll. Sacra. 1. 4. cap. 20. Prideaux's Conn. Vo]. i. 

 p. T J. Ed. 10. Mtya, yj tb Tnt£y.»\i.-Tiov , EpiISjoec ^aKnTTuy iHifif m ^dM-rjaf Ifu^iv. -n f^ yi KuetcAJattVTtt. 



Sh^iMTt. Agatbarftd. apud Phot. Biblioth. p. 1324. Ed. P. Steph. 



doth 



