Lib. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1569 
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guifhed into two, and defcribed in the fecond and third places. The third he calls Fhcks loagifii- 
mo, latifimo, craffoquc folio, and this is marked vv ith the figure r . The fecond he calls F»au arborens 
joljfcbides 5 and this you may fee marked with the figure 2 . This fea Weed (as I haue faid) hath 
a various face, for fometimes from a fibrous root, which commonly groweth to a pibble Hone, or 
fattened to a rocke, it fendeth forth a round ftalke feldome fo thicke as ones little finger, and about 
fome halfe foot in length, at the top whereof growes out a fingle leafe, fometimes an ell long, and 
then it is about the bredth of ones hand, and it ends inafharpe point, fothat itvery well refem- 
bles a two edged fword. Sometimes from the fame root come forth two fuch fafhioned Ieaues, 
but then commonly they are letter. Otherwhiles at the topof the ftalke it diuides it felfe into 
eight, nine, ten, twelue, more or fewer parts, and that iuft at the topof the ftalke, and tbefeneuer 
come to that length that the fingle Ieaues do. Now this I iudge to beth eFucuspoiyfcb/des of B.ut- 
bitie. That theft- two are not fcuerall kindes I am certaine ; for I haue marked both thefevariecies 
from oneand the fame root, as you may fee them here expreft in the .figure. At Margate where 
they grow they call them fea Girdles, and that name well befits the fingle one ; and the diuided 
one they may call Sea Hangers, for if you do hang the tops downewards, they doe reafonable well 
reftmbletheold fafhioned fword-hangers. Thus much for their fhapemow for their colour, 
which is not the fame in all ; for fome are more greene,and thefe can fcarce be dried 5 other-fome 
are whitifh,and thefe do quickly dry, and then both in colour and fubftance are fo like parchment, 
that fuch as know them not would at the firft view take them to be nothing elfe. This is of a glu- 
tinous fub ftance, and a little fal tifh tafte, and diuers haue told me they are good meatc, being boi- 
led tender, and fo eaten with butter, vineger, and pepper. 
10 This which I giue you in the tenth place is not figured or defcribed by any that as yeti 
liaue nret with ; wherefore I gaue the figure anddefeription in the forementioned Iournall, which 
I will hererepeate. This is a very fucculent and fungous plant, of the thickncfle of ones thumbe- 
itisofadarkeyellowifh colour, and buncheth forth on euerie fidewith many vnequall tuberofi- 
ties or knots : whereupon M r . Thom<u Hickes being in ourcompanie did fitly name it Sea rag- 
ged Staffe. We did not obferue it growing, but found one or two plants thereof fome foot long 
apiece. 
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