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An Appendixto 
C h a p. 23. Of the Sea Feather. 
IT 7 hi Place. 
Itgroweth in the deepeft ftreames of the Illyrian fea whence the j . r , 
SSS nd ° ther inflrumellts whic ^ Ch£ y caI1 S P erne - The whole planr^ough dr,ed!feSSs 
Myiophpllum marimtm. 
The Sea Feather. 
«[f The Defcription. 
jT* His elegant plant, which C !a j r n- yc . 
2 ctiued from Cortvfus by thename of 
Myriophyltum Pclagunm, js thus deferifed 
by him : As much (faith hee) as I could 
conieaureby the pidfure, this was feme 
cubit high, hauing a llraight ftalke, fuffi. 
ciently flender,diuided' into many bran- 
ches, or rather branched leaues, almoft 
like thole of Feme, but far finer, bending 
their tops like the branches of the Palme 
ofa yellow ill: colour : the top of the fi a 'k 
adorned with letter leaues, ended in ccr- 
taine feales or clones framed into a head ■ 
which are found to containe no other lend 
£han tender plants already formed in 
lhape like to the old one: which falling 
finke to the botrome of the fea, and there 
take root and grow, and fo become of the 
fame magnitude as the old one from 
whence they came. The ftalke is faftned 
vyith moft (lender and more than capilla- 
lie fibres, in ttead ofa root, not vpon rocks 
and O i Her (hells, as moft other fea plants 
are, but vpon (and or mud in the bottorne 
of thp fea : this ftalke when it is drieisno 
lefle brittle than glafle or Coralline: but 
greene and yet growing it is as tough and 
flexible as Spartum or Matvveed. 
turn. 
The Names. 
The Italian Fifhermen call it Penachio telle Ninfe, and Palma de Nett urn • fome alfo .Scettro di Net - 
*T The Venues. 
P riSFVfh«. S ° 0dagainft ' cheviruIentbitesofcheSea ferpents, and the venomous (lings or 
Applied to final! greene wounds it cures them in the fpace of 24 houres 
Cortufus writ that he had made triall thereof for the kill ing and voiding of wormes and rhathe 
found it to be of no lefieefficacie than any Coralline, and that giuen in lefle quantum 
Chap. 24. Of the Sea Fan. 
•If The Defcriptiem. 
His elegant (hrub groweth vpon the rockes of the fea (where it is fometimes couered with rh„ 
I h ''? ter ' ) - in f dlL,er ? P la . ces s foric bath been brought both from the Eaft and Weft Indies and J 
Ihaiie been mad i[ is to be fo„„d i„ g.ea.plen., ,pon .he ,ock, a, .he BuS. 
calls 
