Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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% The Place. 
Thefe Modes grow in the Tea vpon the rocks, and are oftentimes found vpon Oifter fhels Mtis- 
kell (hells, and vpon ftones : I found very great plenty thereofvnder Reculuers and Margate, ’in the 
Me of rhanet ; and in other places alongft the fands from thence vnto Doner. 
f The Time. 
The time anfwereth the other Mofles,and are found at all times oftheyeate. 
TheNames. 
Sea MofTe is called in Greeke in Latine,Mufcns marimt: of the Apothecaries, Italians, 
and French men, Corallina: in Spnni(h,Malhari}uianayerua:in high Dutch, ^eetlttoCj'in low Dutch, 
ylpofct) : in Englifh.Sea Moife,and of many Corallina, after the Apothecaries word, and it 
may be called Corall Mode. The titles diftinguifh the other kindes. 
The Temperature. 
Corallina confifteth.as Galen faith,of anearthie and wateridi e(Tence,bothof them cold .-for by 
histafteit bindeth,and being applied to any hot infirmitie, italfoeuidentlycooleth : theearthie 
e (fence of this MofTe hath in it alfo a cettaine faltneffe, by realon whereof likcwife it drieth migh* 
tily. 
«[f The Vertues. 
Diofcorides commendeth it tobe good for the gout which hath need to be cooled, A 
The later Phy fitiohs haue found by experience, that it killeth wormes in the bell y ; it is giuen to B 
this purpofe to children in the weight of a dram or thereabouts. 
That which cleaueth to CoralI,and is ofa reddifh colour, is of fome preferred and taken forthe C 
bed : they count that which is whitifh,to be the worfer.Notwithftanding in the French Ocean, the 
Britain, the low countrey,or elfe in the Germane ocean fea, there is fcarce found any other than the 
whirilh Coralline, which the nations necre adioyning do effectually vfe. 
C h a p. 1 66, Of for all. 
I Corallinmrubrum. 
Red Corail. 
l Cor allium nigrum Jive Antipathts, 
Blacke Corail. 
