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(a) Lib.27. 
(b) Lib. 35>. 
(c) Lib. 27. 
(d) De Plan¬ 
ets Rariorib 
p. 70. Tab. 
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Of Sea-Flants. 
much bigger than a filver Spatigle. The inward part of the 
Leaves is fibrous, and by fmall woody Threds are tacked 
together. But, as in Coralline , covered all over with a white 
Crufl 3 which, in like manner, makes a ftrong Ejfervefcettce 
with Acid liquors. 
The BEARDED SEA-WRACK. Fucus capi Haris tuiFlo- 
rius,f. Roccella. Figur’d in Imper at us 3 ( a) And out of him, 
in Bauhinus. ( b) But without a Defcription. Neither will 
it admit an exact one, now dry. ’Tis three inches and • 
high, and five or fix about. The Root, in compafs, two 
inches, one in height, divided into a great number of fmall 
capillary Branches or Sprigs, thick fet, as in a Broom or 
Beard, very brittle, and of a faded Ftuple. It grows in the 
Eaft-Indies. Of excellent ufe, efpccially heretofore, for the 
making of Tinffures both for Painting and Deying. 
A fort of the common SEA-Wrack, called Alga Vitra- 
riorum. \ 
The BLADDER’D SEA-WRACK. Alga Veficaria f. 
conifera, as it may be called 5 having on the tops of its 
Branches feveral Conick Bags, an inch, or an inch and * 
long, warted round about, and originally fill’d with a light 
and fuzzy fubftance. 
The WARTED SEA-WRACK. Fucus verrucofus Impe- 
rati. (c) On which grow a great many veficular and foft 
Knobs all along the Branches, as well as on the top. 
The BROADEST SEA-WRACK. Alga latiffima Ment- 
branacea. The Root hereof, ftringy. The Stalk, round, as 
thick as a Goofe-Quill, and about five inches high. From 
thence ’tis fpread, by degrees, into a thin Skin too inches 
and i broad. 
ANOTHER of the fame Species, but not fo broad. 
The POUNCED SEA-WRACK. Alga marina 
Baubbio. Poro Cervino, Imperato. ’Tis wholly diilributed 
into flat Branches, a I of an inch broad, almoft after the 
manner of a Stags Horns. Of a ruflet colour, and as it 
were all over pounced, fomewhat after the manner of a 
Rue-Leaf, or that of St. Johns Wort, when held up againft 
the light. 
The SPIRAL SEA-WRACK. It winds about, very 
, curioufly, with a great many Circumvolutions, almoft like 
a very deep Siren-. Defcnbed, figur’d, and given by Sig r . 
Boccone. (d) The 
