tnence (hootetn forth funlry fine grcene [lalkes with many fine threds on them, ofacubits lencth fometime,. 
growing Icnoothout at length,and fometimes fouldcd one within another, without any other leaves upon them 
which when they are dry turne to be fomewhat browne,and are of little or no cade at all. 
2. aaflga aquatiliiCapillacea five Conferva flini/, alys Limtm aquatic nm. 
The threddy or hairy Watifr weede. 
This Water weede groweth from the medde in the bottomepf lakes and other (landing waters, and fometimes 
m how running Rivers, which is wholly compofed ofanumberof greene brownifh threds or haires ioyned to¬ 
gether, noting thereon, pamng and waving to and fro all the length thereof, as the current of the Itreame run¬ 
neth, or the windedriveth them,and are fometimes a yard long or&ore. 
3 • Filumnigrum Sotic urnfive Germamcum. The Scottifa or Germane blackellrinny plant. 
This like wife groweth from fome (mail (lone in the bottome of the cranckes of warer neere'tbe Sea fliore to be 
ot two cubits in length,being nothing elfe then a number of thcckefirme fmooth.and blackifh lorn? (Tin >, folded 
one among another,and hath neither roote leafe nor flower. g url "=> s > ,0 *«ea 
,. _ 4 - AlgaBemfycina. The Water Cotton plant. 
f n redW? irenC t ISli,l I Bnt r\ al H ng ™ ch Spread loeke of foftWoollor Cotton, growing dofe together, 
on the ^ ^ *' Upp#ri5de ‘ ,nd whitidl >’• >"d ‘w.Leth 
The PUce and Time. 
d ° C gr ° W !n »-i7*-^ndpo».ds, fame not fame of this City, ,nd others in oT.er places, and are 
the greater Lake^f^mflr^ne^ "ponthe Waters. L^nenfit fiuh.tat.he fecond wasfoundm 
# The Names, 
hefirfl is called by Lugduntnfs Conferva trichodetfltlTtidiomanes aqaatica,md BarMmu vltaatmtalii trkhoi 
^il'cd ZTw^bv^he 5 ?/ 6 Cou f erva b V L°be l,Lugdnnenfu and AnguilaraiicfbTC them, and zslJithfiiatthioluf 
calica Lima by the Florentines. Impcratm called this Lmum aquaticum, as he doth another vm ,1,0,. r ■ 
T'ST* Baubi.ua cajlcth it Alnybidi, capi/lacco folia. The third Bauhinu, calieth Aha r.igra calitceo felh 
„ !*. ™ llrtUmHm Germanicum* faying it was fent him oat o iScotlvncf. The I aft he alio faith rhar- he- ha ^ £ * 
p ' B *'[ ick s SeJ ’? nd gi'-eth it the fame title that I have prefixed before it. I have alfo giien then their 
h tymologies, as is fitting unto them as I thinke. b 1 tncir hnghjh 
TheVertttes. 
p mj hath recorded that he knew one cured incredible quickly,with his Conferva of a fall from a tree whl'e be 
freflr and " S “L a ' m °/ 1 a11 hlS bones - by havin S tbe berbe bou, ’ d to his w hole body when it wa- 
’ nd moiflened with the water thereof, as often as it grew dry,and but ieldome changed Y 
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