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Of Sea-Plants. P a.r t II. 
SEA-BLOBBER. Veficaria marina. Spuma Maris Ceefal- 
pino. Baubinus deferibes two forts, That,which is branched; 
and This, which is not. ’Tis a duller of fmall roundifh 
Bladers, almoft in the fhape of little Oyjlerjhells ; of a light 
brown colour, all over veined with Fibers, like the uter. 
Cover of a Plumftone. Which makes it the more doubt¬ 
ful, whether it be an Animal Body, or a Vegetable. Which 
foever, it is fuppofed the Matrix of a Sea-bifeH. 
Another CLUSTER of die fame fort, but confifting of 
fmaller Bladders. 
The ROPED SEA-BLADDER. I find it no where men¬ 
tion'd. This is alfo wrought with fibrous Veins, as the for¬ 
mer. But the Bladders are of a different fhape, not with 
convex, but fiat and parallel tides, and the Fibers princi¬ 
pally running along and near the edges. Neither are they 
clutter’d in a lump, but joyn’d together, one after another, 
with a Ligament of the fame fubftance, almoft like a Rope 
of Onions 5 faving that they are all 011 one fide. They 
ftink, upon burning 5 fuppofed to be the Matrix of thofe 
Shells whereof the Indians make a fort of Money, which 
they call lFampanpeage. 
A GREAT SPONGE, of the common kind ; of a flat 
Oval Figure, and almoft a yard and half in compafs. 
The SHAGGY-SPONGE. Spongia Villofa. It hath no re¬ 
gular fhape. Of a Texture more rare, than of moft if not 
all the other kinds. And with fmall fhort capillary Fibers, 
as it were fhagg’d all round about. 
The FUNEL-SPONGE. Spongia Infundibulum. De- 
fenbed in fome fort by Clufuis , and from him by Wormius. 
Figur’d by Baubinus , without a Defcription. This here is 
two inches and ’ in height 5 the Rim, near three inches 
over. The fides about I th of an inch thick. Of a Tex¬ 
ture far more compact and clofe, than the common 
Sponge. Yet the Surface all over wrought with little 
round Pores, almoft as in a Poppy-Seed: in fome places 
vifible to the naked eye, but better through a Glafs. On the 
infide, they are in fome places a little bigger, and near the 
Rim difpofed into fhort Rays. Its Bafe, inftead of a Root, 
as in Sea-Shrubs, is ipread out upon a hard lfone, toacon- 
fiderable breadth. 
The Little BRANCHED SPONGE. Of much alike 
T exture 
