Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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end, being a foft herby plant, very flipperie,infomuch that it is a hard matter to ftand vpon it with- 
out falling : it rampeth far abroad, and here and there is fet with certaine puftvp tubercles or blad- 
ders, full of winde, which giueth a cracke when it is broken .-the leafe itfelfedoth fomewhat re- 
femble the Oken leafe, whereof it tooke his name guercus marina , the fea Oke : of fome Wracke 
and Crow Gall. His vfe in phyficke hath not beene fet forth, and therefore this bare defeription 
may fuffice. ‘ 
t H SlMircus mar'wa fecunda. 
Sea Thongs. 
$ 6 Quercus marina tenia. 
The third fea Wracke. 
t Of this £hterctis marina, or Fucus, there are diuers forts, whereof I will’giue youthe figures 
and a briefe hiftorie : the firft of thefe is oncly a varietie of the laft deferibed, diifering there-from 
in the nartownefle of the leaues, and largenefie of the fwolne bladders. 
5 This growes to the length of flue or fix foot, is fmooth and membranous, being fome halfe 
fingers bredth, and varioufly diuided, like wet parchment or leather cut into thongs : this hath no 
fwolne knots or bladders like as the former 5 and is the Fucus rnarims (ecunclus of Vodonxus. 
6 This W racke or fea weed hath long and flat ftalkes like the former, but the ftaiks are thicke 
fet with fwolne knots or bladders, out of which fometimes grow little leaues, in other refpefts it 
is not vnlike the former kindes. Dodonjms makes this his Fucus mxrinns 3 . 
7 The leaues of this other Wracke, which Dodonaus makes his Fucus rnarims quart us, are nar- 
rower, fmaller, and much diuided ; and this hath either none or very few of thofefwollcnbladders 
which fome of the former kindes haue. 
8 This, which IniWcalleth udlga marina, hath iointed blacke branched creeping roots of the 
thicknefle ofones finger, which end as it were in diuers eares, or hairy awnes, compofed of whitifh 
hairy threds fomewhat refembling Spikenard : from the tops of thole eares forth leaues, long,nar- 
row, foft, and graffe-likc, firft greene, but white when they are dry. It growes in the fea as thefor- 
mer. Theyvfeitin Italy and other hot countries to packevp glaffes with, to keepe them from 
breaking. 
9 Ofthis Tribe arediuers other p!ants ; but I will onely giueyou the hiftory of two more, 
which I firft ooferued theIaftyeare,goingin company with diuers London Apothecaries tofinde 
Simples, as farreas Margate in the Iflandof Tenet; and whofe figures (not before extant that I 
know of) I firft gaue in my Iournall or enumeration of fuch plants as we there and in other pla- 
found. The firft of thefe by reafon of his various growth is by Eaubinc in his Prod/omus diftin- 
ces 
guifhed 
