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14. 
The Theater of '‘Plants. 
Chap,54. 1297 
i,2. CmaHinaJtutUans alba velrubra. 
The whke or red crufted ftrub CorrlUno. 
(lot as the former, from fome done or fhcll, butoutofthe 
ground in the Sta, from a roote fattened therein, with very 
hairy fibres, growing up withaflender llalke, ("a sC/upus 
ghefted by che fight of the figure about a cubits height) w hich 
did fend forth branches of long leaves, very finely cut into 
many long parts on both tides and bending the toppedowne- 
wards.very like to the branches of the Date tree, or as I may 
fay, untoa Feather, of a paleor wbicifh colour: theupper 
leaves are (mailer then the lower,elfe alike,and the toppe of 
theflalkeendeth in accrtaine head, compoled as it were of 
of many feales wherein is no feedc, theie feales being as it 
were young plants, which falling to the bottome of the wa¬ 
ter,take roote therein, and grow up like the mother plant, 
this while it growefh in the water, or is frcfh new taken 
forth is tender and pliant to bee bended any way, but when 
it is dry it is as hard as Coralline or Glaflc/ and as brit¬ 
tle. 
5. Coralline alba r.odofa. 
The knotted white Coralline or Barbary Feather. 
The (talke hereof is a (oote high,white, hard, and wood- 
dy, covered with a rugged white barke, having fundry 
Straight but weake branches, ifi'uingou on all fides without 
order,three or foure inches long apeece and fome parted in¬ 
to Idler onesjofnoc ahove an inch long, on each ftalke there 
lland di vers, even thirty or forty (mall knots or buttons, for 
the mod part bored through, compoled of two halfeciicles 
compalling it round about: this was brought out of Barba¬ 
ry tj AfarceUcs and there worne in hats IikeTearhers. 
6. Co albna rugofa duplex & alia minus rugofa. 
Two forts of rough Coraline and a fmooth. 
The one of thefe is of a hard wooddy lubftance, without 
coare or heart, ofabrownifii colqur, crulled over with a 
rough knotted or bunched coate or barke, of an afh colour 
which is brittle, eafie to be rubbed to pouther, from whence 
fprirrg crooked or bending fialks and frnaller branches from 
them, all of them crulled and - ’ ■ 
bunched rough, as the (lalkeand 
ending in a blunt poinr, or end, 
Another isboth whiterand fmoo- 
ther, butelfe not like it in ftalkes 
and branches. There is another 
a’fo whole crufted coatc is pale 
yellow. 
7, Coradina reticulata 
plana pttrpurafcens . 
The red Sea Fanne. 
This pleafant and delight full 
Sea plant is of divers fifes fome 
greater and other Ieffcr, yet all of 
growing fiat like a fanneor large 
i.afe with fundry greater bran¬ 
ches Threading on both fides of 
the maine ftemme.and they again 
into fmailer and fmaltbr, ending 
in very fine and finail points, yet 
all of them /oyned clofe together, 
fa that there is no reparation of 
branches one from another, but i: 
nS^St * ",«• Cy« fome forts have beene feene that have had 
iubftance, eafie to be cut with a k nife of a brownifhr h' 0 *! U1IC0 ^ oI “> of 3 very hard and wooddy matter or 
fotnewhat bended, and csvered.im^mypdac^'infomemorenr^# 11 ^! 1 0t b3 j d to break e, although it may bee 
taken out of che Sea,or before it be mbbed^ifo handlfnl n ffe ( bU - P eudv ^ ,ure »» over, when it is fir ft 
to the Rockes.which the Seas uoe over oft™ time r § Car I ya Sf^'y lch a whirifh ftltnefiV. This groweth 
Bermuda ffi es , compareth ft to a vL P lei, 9 a P c T e { m ' th in JBooke of the plants growing in the 
hath beene brought both from the Eaft and Weft Wie^touV ” ‘ ^ ^ U h£fe dld,ancl ca,,ed ic t[,e Feather. It 
For iomeliLifeffeu^Saft^entfoned pforfant’lFanne'fth Sc !^f S W S “ FanRes of 
of grow co a mans he.ghtfrom theRockes"'^ t^^and'umen *? ad/oyncrwoothcrs;each where- 
is branched as it were in one or two places/thac is hatha dragge for Corali: the one of them 
* in 
WbultMkEnHtuk. He dih like wooddy Coralline. 
