Theatrum c Botanicum, 
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provoking urine and helping thereby to wa(h away the gravell and hone engerdred in the kidneys or bladder: 
P Manv other Sea plants might have beene put into this Claffis, which I have difperfedly handled and fpoken of 
rhroti’h this whole worke, becaule they were (0 like unto thofe plants, whettuntol have joyned them, that 
they could not well be feperated, 1 thought them therefore fitter to be entreated of there, and xeferved oncly 
thefe few for this place. 
Casr. L. 
Buliiut Crinituf marinm. The Sea Bulbe with hairy bufh toppes. 
Eloi e I come to the Sea Modes, let me adde this uncouth.unheard of, and peradventure untrue, or 
at le'atl uncertaine Sea plant,in that we have not yet read or heard ol any found Authour that hath 
mentioned k,bat lugdunenjli and he, as 
he (aithoutof ccrtaine Navigations in 
the Italian tongne, but neither perfons 
that faw it, nor pl’ce of the Sea where 
itsrewbnt onely among certaine Iflands, nor time 
when it was found, aie expreded in the declaration 
thereof: which maketh it the more fufpitious: but as 
Lucdun'rfu hath fet it downe, fo 1 will give it you to 
caufe others to finde out the truth, or folly of the mat¬ 
ter Among certaine 1 dands doth grow fo great abun¬ 
dance of this finely expreded plant, that (liippes being 
forced ro pafle over it,are often ftayed in their courle 
it groweth in the bottomc of the Sea, to the length of 
foureteene or nfteenc fathome (or braces) and riling 
foutc or five above the water, of the colour of yellow 
wave, with arealonablebiggeftalke, from whence at 
certaine fpaces are fet divers bulbes, fending forth at 
their cnds.certaine bufhes or tufts of haires, the roote is 
bulbous alio, but thicker and greater then the others on 
the (hikes, and bufhing out many hairy fibres: Thus 
much hee. Banh'mtu faith hee knoweth not what it is, 
and finely 1 thinke if there were any fuch thing, in re 
rum mtura, others befides Lugdunenfir might have the 
fortune to light upon that unnamed Authour to certifie 
us of his honedy and knowledge, I can goe no further, 
not having any further limits alotted me. 
Bulbut maTixus ciinitw. T he Ssa bulbe with Feather tops. 
Chap. LI. 
Mufcus marines, Sea Mofle. • 
F Modes I am nexttofpeake.which are of many forts, fome of the Vplands, and others ofthc Sea, 
' which mud be joyned next to thofe other Sea plants, and thofe of the Land after them, and hecau e 
I thefe alfo are of divers forts,I thinke fit to diftribute them into three rankes. the firlt to be ot th °'= 
that are of anherby fubftance.the fecond of an harder ftony, and the lad of a Iponey matter: the hilt 
fort alfo is to be divided into thefe plants, that btare fine cut leaves, like Mode or Fearne and into 
thofe thathave broader leaves,of thofe with fine cut leaves I fhall entreate in this Chapter, andofthebrcaccr in 
I. CMufou marirus cafillaceui Diofcmdu, The loft SeaMode. 
This (oft Sea Mode (is not CVailiM, which is hard and hath a branched (hike, hut) is like un '? 
that grow upon the ground or trees without any roores onely growing upon 
among the Alga of divers forts,growing fomewb a 
fleth a little filtifh and binding. 
3. Mufcut marintts Ncapolttanur. SeaMode ot Nafln. 
This Sea Mode likewife groweth unto fome rocke or done, tiling with a ftalke more then foure inches hig 
