614 Salmon 's Herbal. Lib. JL 
III. The Defcriptions. The fr / ?, - or Common 
narrow-leaved Sea Lentil. It has many winding 
Stalks , on which grow Jhort Branches , Jet thick with 
narrow Leaves , like thofe cj Beividere or Befonjflax, 
and among thele grow many skinny, hollow, empty, 
round Berries, of the Bignefs and Shape of Lentils, 
Ifom whence it takes its Name : they are fome- 
times of a pale Amber-color, and fometimes that 
Color is fpeckt with Red. 
IV. The fecond , or Jagged or Saw-leaved Sea 
Lentil. This Defcription you fhall have from Aco- 
fta. In that famoin and no lefs to he feared Navi- 
gation del Sergazo, ( for fo they that fail into the 
Indies call that Space of the Ocean from the 18 th to 
the it'tb Degree of North Latitude) is feen a deep 
and fpacious Sea , covered with an Herb called Ser- 
gua’zo, being a Span long , wrapped with the tender 
Branches , as it were into Balls ^ having narrow and 
tender Leaves , about half an Inch long , or fomewhat 
longer , a little broad , and Jnipt about the edges , 
of Color reddijh , of Tajte infi pi d, or without any 
fenfiblc Biting , but what is rather drawn from the 
Salt Water , than naturally inherent to the Plant. 
At the fetting on of each Leaf grows a Seed, round, 
like a Pepper Corn, of a whitilh Color, and fome- 
time of White and. Red mixt : it is very tender 
when it is firft drawn forth of the Water, yet hard 
when it is dried ; but by realon of its Thinnefs, 
folUculaeeus Linarix folio Bauhini ; and the Acina- 
nx Marina: altera Species Imperati. 2. Lenticula 
Marina Serratis foliis , Lucus foliaccus Serrate folio 
Bauhini , Acinar ix Marina tertia Species Imperati , 
The Jagged or Saw-leaved Sea Lentil. This Broad - 
leaved or Saw-leaved Sea Lentil, Clufius in his Scho- 
lia on the laft Chapter of Acofla, his Book of Sim- 
ples, puts it to the Queftion, 'whether this with the 
dented Leaves be not that Herb which is culled 
Sarguafo or Sargazo ? but Bauhinus , in his Pinax , 
determines it as certain. 
Common narrow-leaved Sea Lentil, 
very iragil and full of fait Water. There .is no 
Root to be obferved in this Plant, but only the 
Marks of the Breakings off appear. And it is like- 
ly it grows in the deep and handy Bottom of the 
Sea, and there may have fmall Roots. Yet fome 
are of Opinion, That this Herb is plucked up and 
carried away by the rapid Courle of the Waters 
which fall out of many Illands into the Ocean. 
Now, the Mailer of the Ship in which I was; did 
ltiffly maintain this Opinion : and in failing here, 
we were becalmed ; bur as far as ever we could fee,, 
we law the Sea wholly covered with this Plant. 
And lending down fome young Sailors, to drive the 
Weeds from the Ship, -and clear the Water, we 
plainly law round heaps thereof to rife up from the 
bottom of the Sea, where, by founding, we could 
find no bottom. 
Jagged or Saw-leaved Sea Lentil . 
\ . The Places and Times. The firft is found in 
many places of the. Mediterranean and Adriatic k 
Seasj as alfo in other Southern Seas. The lecond 
is found in many places of the Atlantick Ocean to- 
ward the South , in the Latitude and place afore- 
mentioned, as alfo in feveral other parts of that. 
Sea. They are to be found, by Report of Sailors, 
all the Year long, their Growth and Caufe of Ap- 
pearance being the fame. 
The Virtues . 
VI. They are as yet unknown : but Ac of a fays, 
That if this Plant is pickled with Salt and Vinegar, 
it will have the fame Talte as Sampirc has, and 
may be ufed inftead thereof; and is alfo eaten by 
fuch as fail initead of Capers. Aco(la caufed it to 
be given, when it was frefh taken forth of the Sea, 
to Goats which they carried in the Ship, and they 
fed upon it greedily : He confdfes himlelf ignorant 
of its Qualities : but one of the Sailors, troubled 
with a Difficulty of making Water, by reafon of 
Gravel 
