8, Furpk r marttintw Gallopavonis petition rtfertnt. The Peacockes Feather. 
This a! Co is of a skinny fubltance.fpreading it felfc by little and little wide abroad,cut into many jagges, which 
end in halfe circles,lying fomerimes one upon another,whereon arefetfundry (emicircular (pots, and ftroakesof 
divers colours,and ofdifferiflg bignefle one from another, like as is feene in the Peacockes feathers : this grow- 
eth r >the Rockes in the Sea : fomewhat like hereunto there isalfoa ccrcaine barke taken from Scallops, that 
breede on the fame llockes. 
p. Fttcus marinas Laftuca marina ditttts, Oyfter greene,orSea Lettice. 
The Oyfter greene, as all know is a foft tender herbe growing on Rockes, with thinne crumpled, and darke 
greeneleaves, fomewhat like unto the curld Lettice, and hath neither ftalke nor roote, butgrowingas moll of 
theft Sea weedcs doe,upon Rockes or Rones. 
l O. Fuchs five Alga Intubacea, Sea curled Endive. 
The Sea curld Endive,hath divers long and round leaves lying on the ground, and {hooting forth others on all 
fides,as it runneth thereon, fending out fmall fibres from the joynts under the leaves, which are dented round at 
the fidcs,making the proportion of a ragged ftaffe, as it i6 painted on every leafe. 
ii. Qjicrcus manna. Sea Oake, or Sea Wrake. 
This likewifc in the fame places, and after the fame manner groweth on the Rockes, and lycth thereon fiat; 
when the water is falne therefrom,fhooting forth many long Ralkes of leaves,to a great length, cut in and divi¬ 
ded fomewhat like unto Oaken leaves, fet here and there with blitters, as it were berries full of winde,and feme 
full of water,which being troden on will give a cracke,the whole herbe is of a very greene colour, foft and rough, 
which while it is wet is like wetskinnes, fome doe call this herie Quercw warm* baccifera , by reafon of the 
fmall round knots,which is like hollow berries, and iablacke being dry. Another fort is called GhrJifera ,bccaufe 
that being fomewhat like the other,but with fhorter leaves, and fome alfo growing from the middle ribbe,it hath 
no knots or bliftirs on the branches,but at the ends thicke fmall long bunches like lmall A<kornes, and is white 
when it is dry. And a third lort called Quercua marl a barbata, becaufc theendfrof’the leaves are very finely cut 
into long hairy threds, reprtfentinga beaid. 
12. Opuntia marina. The Sea Garland. 
This dainty plant groweth up from fome Rockes or ftoncs, in or r.eere the Sea, fpreading fundry flat, thicke, 
fliort and round leaves,one fet on the toppe of another, and fome alfo growing from the fides, forming branches 
of leaves leaning dowpewards, each being as it wereflrung on athred which yetis fcarfe to bedifceriied, like as a 
Country Garland of field and come flowers, are ufed to be made to dtcke the Country houles. and their places 
of (port, fo that the whole plant feemeth to be made of nothing but ttrung leaves, bearing a large yellow flower 
at the toppe laith Ratthism, but I much doubt he taketh that fuppofition from the Ficus Jndic* Americana, the 
low-r leaves are fomewhat browne,tbe reft are whitifh greene,and thofc that are new fprung aregrccnc,and all 
of hemfmoothand Hiining, even kept betweene papers for a longtime, and ofa (alti/h tafle, ytt by longtime 
growing rougher and full of wrincklc3,bat ftiU tough and not brittle like Comll or Coralline, ai,d growing foft 
againetteepsd in watcr,yetftill very fait. * 
The Place and Time. 
Divers of theft* are found on our EngtiJB and Scottijh coafts, but fome in the warmer Countries, their cheifeft 
time of beauty and ufe, is the end of Summer. 
The Name\ 
It is called in Greeke ZuhAonov, and inLatine Phycos or Phttcu f, or Fuats mart mm, marinw being added 
thereunto to diftinguifh it from the Fuchs herb*, which i» Anchufa , and Alga ^anwaalfo,! ecauie divers A'uthours 
have called divers water herbes by the name of Alga, fome acjnatica, fome palujlru, Pliny his inconftancy as I 
fliewed in part in the Ialt Chapter, appeareth plainely herein, in chat in one place, lib. i $.c. a. he faith that the 
Grecians hath not found another name in any ration whereby it may be called, beeJufe Aha is the name of 
her ies, and Phycos is ofa fhrubbejand yet in another place lib.$ 2. c. 6 . he trarttateth Theophrafim and Nicarder s 
,that faith it is the Treakle of the Sea to be Alga ,and fay there are many kindcs thereof, as they doe of 
and thereupon 6\«^doth alwayes mnttzieTkcophrafltH bis Wv><.tobe Alga. Thefirft of thefe is the Fucws mari- 
nw alter of *ZW w*** ,the Fuchs five Alga marina gramme a of called by thofeof CMompelier Palea ma¬ 
rina, being ufed by them both for litter for their catrlc, and for the belt fort of dung for their fieldes, but Lobel 
Aha 
