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Tribe 14. TheTbeater of \Vlants . 
1. AIJine marina. So Chickwcede 
This Sea Chickwcedegrowethfor tte noft pm with the branches lying'on the ground, very like untothe 
middle fort of Chick weedc.bnt that the ftalkes are fhorter and thicker, and cloler iovnted with fiich liter leave* 
at them,yet thicker and whiter,the flowers are compofed of many fmall leaves (landing likeaftarre • the (eed- 
veffells that follow, are not long and round like the other, but flat and fomewhatboal wherdn a^ ned 
three or fount greater feedes: therooteis threddy. Another like hereunto is that Sea Chickwcede that r/«L, 
iaith he found withthickdeaves.likc unto Pur (lane,growing on the fandy hils ncere the (bore in Holland hat 
shit the flowers as he faith were grecmHi. 3 Dl!C 
5. ted!finemaritime Neapolitana flarernbente. Blulh Chickwcede of Naples 
The ftalkes of this Chickwcede are exceeding fmall, lying on the ground, round about the rootes, with as fine 
and fmall leaves almoft thereon, two alwayes or more fet croiTewife at the joyntes, being of a fitters 1,-nm-h,i 
moft : the flowers (land at the toppes, as in the former Sea Chtckweede, but of a bK 
whole ieede is contained in the like long heads as othersitheroote is threddy as the reft With the fivurc r 
you have tp the fame table that (mail Sea Buekes borneof Naplesfet forthb'y Column!, rhTdeftSwheeof 
you (hall finde before in f»g a o.. and might verywe^vebeene brought hither.among thefe other Sea plants? 
The titles of thefe declare their places of breeding,and their time is with the others. 
TheNamei, 
Thefirft is called Aliine marina ofDodonem vndTabermontantu ,but Zu^r/callerh ir Aten, «„• 
*•[?&» CentunculS,the Other kinde whereof Chf* ealleth 
Column,, Alfine marinma Neapolitan,. i i. f l rne lecond is called by 
The Venues . * 
All era. 
Chap. XLIV. 
Lenticnla marinavulgario. Ordinary Sea Lentils. 
Lenticnla marina rmlgarit,& ferratisfoliji. 
Ordinary Sea Lentils. 
; Aturall to the Tyrrhene and Afiatickt Sea, be- 
' tweenc the Florentine and Venetian Dominions, 
there groweth, faith Label, this plant, which 
j lac jj t [ lc L on „ an j narr0iv [caves of Sc opart, 
or Broome Flax,very thicke fet on weak bending (talks, 
lialfc a fooce long and full ofempty round skinny berries, 
like unto Lentils, from whenceit came to be fo called. 
There is another fort hereof called Lenticnla marina fer. 
ratlt folijs .very like it differing oncly in that it hath broa¬ 
der and fhorter leaves,dented about the edges. 
The Plaee.Time, Names and Vertues , 
Their Place is declared, and Time to be underftood the 
Sommer. Label ealleth it Lenticula marina Serapiona.and 
id doe Tabcrmontanm and Lugdunenfis after him, who 
alfo faith it is called by fome Vva marina, Sauhinns cal- ’ 
leth that with plaine [eaves Fhcm folhcu/aceus Linar:, 
folia, and faith that Impcratui called it Acinarie marine 
altera ffrecies, but the other with jagged leaves, he ealleth ‘ 
T neiis foliacens [erratafolio, and of ImpCratus Acinar to ma¬ 
rine tenia jpeciet, but to what ufeitmay.ferveinPhy- 
ficke hath not yet been® obferved. Clufim in his Scholia 
on the laft Chapter of /fco/Lshis Booke of fimpfesput- 
tethittothe queftion whether that with dented leaves, 
ff ould not be that herbe that is called Sargaafo, but 'Ban. 
hinur in his Pinax (etteth itdowne as ifitwere certaine. 
Thefe have been often feen covering the Sea,in f ayling to 
the Eaft Indies, betweene eightccne and thirty foure'dc- 
gteesof Northerly Latitude, which by hindering the 
fhips paffage.fome of the Saylers in elecring the (ides of 
the (hip,brought it into the (hip, and while it was frefh 
did eate thereof both raw and boyled, but grew hard and 
brittle when it was dry, and was of a clenfing property 
for urine, as one of the Saylers troubled withfoulehu- , 
mours and the flopping of thofe palTage,found to his eafe that did eate thereof. Acofla his defeription thereof is 
in this manner. This plant groweth in a large fmopth Sea covered therewith,as farre as the eye coulddifeerne 
whofe bottome could not be reached unto by our plumme line,yet very likely to rife from the bottome as miohe 
he difcerned by the berries wrapped together thereon on the branches, and being pulled up was of an hand* 
length,with leaves halfe an inch long,dented about the edges, and of a reddifh colour, without caffe but what ic 
had from the Sea water: at every leafe it bore a berry like a Pepper come, bat hollow full of fait wa-er and of a 
iTdryed? 0Ur * * ^ ° f ’ Wh ‘ tC a " d red 5 beWg freftl and ” eW takenU P ic ‘‘tender, but brittle and har’d when it 
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