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An Appendix to 
Coral arboris ramus. 
A branch of the Corall tree. 
reafon of his death who fent them me, which 
hapned fhortly after . yet I hanc made the 
forme of the leaues with the manner as I con- 
ie&ured they grow, to be delineated in the fi^ 
gure which I here giue you. Whether Matt hi- 
olus in his laft edition of his Commentaries 
vpon Diofcorides would baue exprtftthis by 
the Icon of his firft Acacia, which is prickly 
and hath leaues refembling thofeol i^irlor 
Iud*, 1 know r.otjbut if lie would haue expref- 
fed this tree, the painter did notwell play his 
part. 
After that Clufius had fet forth thus much 
of this tree in his H if. variorum jdant. the lear- 
ned D‘. Caftaneda a Phyfition alfoof Citiili 
certified me, faith he, that the floures ofthis 
tree grow thicke together at the tops of the 
branches, ten, twelue, or more hanging vpon 
fhort foot- flalkes, growing out of the fame 
place : whofe figure healfo fent, but fo rudely 
drawne, that I could not thereby haue come 
to any knowledge of the floures, but that he 
therewith fent me twodried floures, by which 
I partly gathered their form. How thefe flours 
were very narrow, 2. inches long or more, com 
nltingof three leaues,the vppermoft of which 
much exceeded the 2. narrow ones on the fides 
both in length and breadth, and it was dou- 
bledjbut before the floure was opened it bet- 
ter refembled a home or cod, than a floure,and 
forth" f ddeft h ° fthc v , ndcr the v PP er leafe that w as 'folded, b ti t; C ^ahe^top'there' 'came 
forth a fmooth pointall, duuded at the top into nine parts or threds, whofe ends of what colour 
they were, as alio the threds I know not, becaufe I could not gather by the dry floure whofe co 
lour was quite decayed, and then, flute it felf expreflTed no reparation of the leaues in the floum no 
f rme of threds, but onely the floures flrut,and refembling rather cods than floure sand thofe of 
a deepe red colour. But ifl could haue feen them frelher,! fhould haue been able tohaue murm 
rnSTVhu^uchcS ^. 1 W ^ ere ^ orc l et ^ reader take ingood parr that which I haue here perfor- 
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Of the fea Lentill. 
•I The Ocfcription. 
?,!! ,| hlS V> ‘\ Tf ’ and oth ( ershaue thought it the Ltnticula marina of Serapio but 
t ey are deceiued, for his Lenucula manna deferibed in his ray. chapter, is nothing elfe 
tba'comm 6 T marm . u * ox Br y° n ‘Mapm, deferibed by Diofcorides, lib ] 4 . cat. 99 . af any 
th ° -ompares thefe two places together may plainely fee. ‘i F 99 y 
ed^es But ^t I £ r bifni e ; ft 0 m | th ^r rme I. ,b c t that th * Ieaues are broader, fhortcr, and fnipt about the 
What famous and fn? ^° bab ‘ h “ c th , e Sar P azo of you fhall here what he faies thereof. 
Indies StfKr n nain f n o 0n de [ Ser S az0 (&>' they which faile into the 
a deepe and LS fS f he ° ce ™ fro, P ^ iB.to the 34 .d e gree of Northerly Iatitude)is feen 
the tender branches as it" vv)th an b er be called Sarguazo,beinga fpan long, wrapped with 
branches as it were into balls, hauing narrow and tender leaues feme halfe inch long 
much 
