Of Sea-Plants. Part II 
SEA-BLOBBER. Veficaria marina. Spuma Maris Cafal- 
pino. Bauhinus defcribes two forts, That, which is branched 3 
and This, which is not. 5 Tis a Chiller of fmall roundiih 
Bladers, almoft. in the fhape of little Oyfterjhells 5 of a light 
brown colour, all over veined - with Fibers, like the uter 
Cover of a Plumftone. Which makes it the more doubt- 
ful, whether it be an Animal Body, or a Vegetable. Which 
foever, it is fuppofcd the Matrix of a Sea-Infeff. 
Another CLUSTER of the fame fort, but confining of 
fmaller Bladders. 
The ROPED SEA-BLADDER. I find it no where men- 
tion d. This is alfo wrought with fibrous Veins, as the for- 
mer. But the Bladders are of a different fhape, not with 
convex, but flat and parallel fides, and the Fibers princi- 
pally running along and near the edges. Neither are they 
duffer d in a lump, but joyn'd together, one after another, 
with a Ligament of the fame fubltance, almoft like a Rope 
of Onions 5 faving that they are all on one fide. They 
ftink, upon burning 5 fuppofcd to be the Matrix of thofe 
Shells whereof the Indians make a fort of Money, which 
they call Wampanpeage. 
A GREAT SPONGE, of the common kind 5 of a flat 
Oval Figure, and almoft a yard and half in compafs. 
The SHAGGY-SPONGE. Spongia Villofa. It hath no re- 
gular fhape. Of a Texture more rare, than of moft if not 
all the other kinds. And with fmall fhort capillary Fibers, 
as it were fhagg'd all round about. 
The FUN EL-SPONGE. Spongia Infundibulam. De- 
fcribed in fome fort by Clufius, and from him by Wormius. 
Figurd by Bauhinus, without a Defcription. This here is 
two inches and I in height 3 the Rim, near three inches 
over. The fides about ? th of an inch thick. Of a Tex- 
ture far more compact and clofe , than the common 
Sponge. Yet the Surface all over wrought with little 
round Pores, almoft as in a Poppy-Seed: in fome places 
vifible to the naked eye, but better through a Giafs. On the 
infide, they are in fome places a little bigger, and near the 
Rim difpofed into fhort Rays. Its Bafe, mftead of a Root, 
as in Sea-Shrubs, is ipread out upon a hard Hone, to a con- 
fiderable breadth. 
The Little BRANCHED SPONGE. Of much alike 
Texture 
