Part II. 
Of Sea-Tlants. 
Texture and colour with the common kind. But finely 
rifing up and distributed into feveral Branches, folic! or not 
hollow, about * of an inch over, like a fpng of Corah 
Given by Sig r . Boccone. 
The BRUSHY SPONGE. This alio is branched, and 
the Branches not hollow. But much more numerous. 
The Trunk fomewhat denfe, two inches high, and thick as 
a Goofe-Quill. Divided into three principal Branches, and 
thefe into about thirty more of the fame thicknefs with the 
Trunk it felf, two or three inches long, perforated with 
fome larger pores, as the Funel-Spoftge, and near their tops, 
a little flat, and forked. 
The CATSTAIL-SPONGE. This alfo is ramify d,/r. into 
three large Branches, not hollow, rifing up llrait> and im- 
mediately from the Root, to a foot in height 5 below, ? 
an inch over 3 at the top an inch , not unlike the 
Head of the Typba major, or a Cats-Tayk. To thefe, three 
other lener Branches are appendent. All of them of a 
blackifh colour,and a rare Texture,but the Fibers fomewhat 
more thick and flubborn, than in the common fort, and fo 
woven, as to make fome larger fuperficial Pores. The Root 
or Bafe is fpread out upon a flone. The Ra?nous Sp?iges are 
fometimes found about the Iflands of Fero. 
The HOLLOW CONICK SPONGE. About a quar- 
ter of a yard high, and half a yard about. It confifteth of 
fiftular Branches, of a Conick Figure, rifing higher and 
higher, fmooth within, without porous, and as it were a 
little jagged. 
The HOLLOW CYLINDRICK or PIPE-SPONGE. 
From the Bafe rife up four or five Pipes, above an inch 
over, fmooth within, and tuberated without, with fome re- 
femblance to the Corallium Verrucofum. Its Texture fome- 
what clofer, than of the common Sp?ige. 
The FLAT HOLLOW SPONGE. Near five inches 
high. Below, above two inches broad 5 above, more than 
three. Confifteth of two flat yet hollow pieces, above four 
inches deep 3 but without, diitinct for the fpace only of an 
inch and i Within alfo fmooth, and without tuberated, as 
the former, but more bluntly. 
All Sponges ftink, more or lefs, upon burning, as the 
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