Part If. 
Of Sea^P lands . *25 
Texture and colour with the common kind. But finely 
riling up and diftributed into feveral Branches, folid or not 
hollow, about * of an inch over, like a fpng of Coral. 
Given by Sig f . Boccone. 
The BRUSHY-SPONGE. This alio is branched, and 
the Branches not hollow. But much more numerous. 
The Trunk fomewhat denfe, two inches high, and thick as 
a Goofe-Quill. Divided into three principal Branches, and 
thefe into about thirty more of the fame thicknefs with the 
Trunk it felf, two or three inches long, perforated with 
fome larger pores, as the Funel-Sponge , and near their tops, 
a little flat, and forked. 
The CATSTAIL-SPONGE. This alfo is ramify’d ,fc. into 
three large Branches, not hollow, riling up ftrait, and im¬ 
mediately from the Root, to a foot in height 5 below, I 
an inch over; at the top an inch, not unlike the 
Head of the Typha major, or a Cats-Tayle. To thefe, three 
other lefler Branches are appendent. All of them of a 
blackilh colour,and a rare Texture,but the Fibers fomewhat 
more thick and ftubborn, than in the common fort, and fo 
woven, as to make fome larger fuperhcial Pores. The Root 
or Bafe is fpread out upon a ftone. The Ramous Sponges are 
fometimes found about the Iflands of Fero. 
The HOLLOW CONICK SPONGE. About a quar¬ 
ter of a yard high, and half a yard about. It confifteth of 
fiftular Branches, of a Conick Figure, riiing higher and 
higher, fmooth within, without porous, and as it were a 
little jagged. 
The HOLLOW CYLINDRICK or PIPE-SPONGE. 
Prom the Bafe rife up four or five Pipes, above an inch 
over, fmooth within, and tuberated without, with fome re- 
femblance to the Cor allium Venucofum. Its Texture fome¬ 
what clofer, than of the common Sponge. 
The FLAT HOLLOW SPONGE. Near five inches 
high. Below, above two inches broad ; above, more than 
three. Confifteth of two flat yet hollow pieces, above four 
inches deep , but without, diftindt for die fpace only of an 
inch and i Within alfo fmooth, and without tuberated, as 
the former, but more bluntly. 
All Sponges ftink, more or lefs, upon burning, as the 
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