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their roots fix the fands, and prevent them from fhifting with the 
winds, and confequently from making further encroachments upon 
the arable grounds j and the late Lord Arundel ot Wardour, Lord 
of the ancient inheritances of the Arundels ot Lanhern in this 
county, obliged his tenants of thofe parts (as his anceftors had done 
before) to plant a proper quantity ot this Juncus , in order to pre- 
ferve their lands from being over-run ; the other ufe is, that the 
leaves ferve the induftrious women of thefe parifhes to weave a kind 
of coarfe mats for laying on floors, and mattrefles for beds, market- 
bafkets, and church haflocks, and very clean and wholefome 
they are, 
N°. xxxii. Small fea-crane’s-bill, Geranium pufillum maritimum 
fupinum Betonicce folio , found in fandy places near the fea, about 
Penzance and elfewhere e . 
N°. xxiii. Sea cud-weed, or cotton-weed, Gnaphalium mariti- 
mum , <c on the gravelly fhore between Penzance and St. Michaels 
Mount f .” 
N°. xxxiv. Creeping cock’s-foot grafs, Gramen da&yloides radice 
repent e y Ger s . “ found by Mr. Newton on the fandy fhores between 
Penzance and Marazion plentifully h .” 
N°. xxxv. Sea-dogs grafs, long-rooted with a foliaceous ear,, 
Gramen caninum maritimum fpica foliacea , C. B. ( conoeidid , folds 
bifdis, furfum tendentibus) Ludgvan garden, 1756 
N°. xxxvi. The Englifh lea-peafe, Pifum maritimum Anglicum *, 
on the beach near Penzance. 
N°. xxxvii. Narrow-leaved wild flax, Linum fylveftre angujli- 
folium floribus dilute purpurafeentibus vel carneis , C. B. cc in the 
pailures by the fea-flde, about St. Ives and Truro plentifully \ 
N“. xxxvm. Small purple fea-fpurge, Peplis maritima folio obtufo 
auSlorum , five titbymalus , found on the fandy beach between Pen- 
zance and Marazion plentifully m . 
sect. ix. Being now on the brink of the fea, it would be an unpardonable 
Submarine negledt to omit the plants which our fea contains, emulating 
mou? almoft the number, if not the variety of thofe which live in the 
air, exceeding them oftentimes in finenefs of texture, and beauties 
of colouring. Submarine plants are diftinguifhed by the learned, 
into ftony, horny or ligneous, and herbaceous. Among the her- 
baceous fea-plants, the moft common kind is the Alga , Fucus y 
Grafs-wracks, Sea-wracks, alias Ore-weed : Of this there is a great 
e Ray, 3 d edit, page 3.56. 
f Ibid, page 180. 
s Ibid, pao-e 399. 
» Ibid. 
1 Ibid, page 391. 
k Ibid, page 319. 
1 Ibid, page 362. 
m Ibid, page 313. 
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