Sea-Vlants. 
Part II. 
Sect. V. 
Of SEA-PLANTS. 
CHAP. I. 
OfSHRVBS. 
I Find, upon particular Obfervation , that of SEA- 
SHRUBS there are two general kinds. Such as are ftrid:- 
ly woody, that is, have the colour and fibrofity of Wood, 
and burn and fmell like Wood. And fuch as are, in a man- 
ner, horny, or look, bend, burn and fmell like Horn. 
A WOODY SHRUB. Frutex viarinm vere ligneus. 
Tis here cut off from the Root. About a foot in height, 
with four Branches fpread out as broad, and cover d with 
feveral thick Knobs of a fort of foftifti white Coral \ the 
fides of which Knobs are a * of an inch thick 5 the furface 
almoft like that of Poppy-Seed. 
ANOTHER, near a \ of a yard high, as thick as the 
Ring-Finger, with white and hardilh Incruftations upon 
the tops of its Branches. Any ftrong Acid droped on the 
faid Cruft, caufeth an Effervefcence : fo that it feems to be a 
Coralline fubftance. 
A THIRD, with the Branches broken, and without a 
Cruft, three or four inches high, and as thick as the middle 
Finger. 
A FOURTH, with the Branches alfo broken, and with- 
out a Cruft. Tis a fmall one $ but hath a very large Root, 
curioufly fpread all.over the backfide of an Oyfter-jheU. 
And it may here be obferv'd, That the Roots not only 
of this, but almoft all Sea-Shrubs, inftead of being Rami- 
fied, are fpread out in the form of a Skin or Membrane, 
and fo ftick faft to fome hard and fteady Body as their 
Bafe. 
Another flender one, about a f of a yard high, but the 
Root broken off. 
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