Tribe 14 - The Theater 0/'Plants. CnAP.55. 1299 
in a (licke that hath had a W ith winde, or Hony fuckle run up upon it,and the other not, both of them confid of 
a number of fmall and long leave?,as I may fo call them,or rather blacke Hogges bridles,one row or older grow¬ 
ing upright from the middle (hike,and another from it thwarting them, fo right all joyning together, in forme 
of a net, with the holes or fpaces to be fecnc through them,the (idea being even and the toppe round. 
The ‘Place and Time. 
The place ofthetwofird are Mompelier .and lome places in Speine. Tire third Clufim faith he had from Nat- 
n/j, but notknowne whether growing there or no. The fourth and fifth are expreffed in their deferiptions, the 
fuct with all the forts is not expreffed: The feventh hath bcene often brought from fuudry parts of Americajroth 
of our o vne and ocher Colonies. The eight is not mentioned by Puna from what place it was caken. They kcepc 
chefametime with thcrcfl. The Names. 
The two firlf are called by Label Corallina alba (Sr rubens tAfntipathisfacie, and by Baubinus Corallinafruticofitl 
who referred! them to Clufias his Qwrnv marina Theopbrajlijvshote figure I here alfo give you for the difference 
fake, but Theopbraflus his defeription thereof lib. 4, c. 7. can in my opinion no way agree thereunto: forhec 
there faith Abies marina (Sr Quercus marina have a thicke long and fleihy lcafe,but this is hard done like, or Co- 
raIllikeontheout(idc,and wooddy inward. Anguillara callethit f uncus petro/us, and Gefner Lilhophjton ma- 
rinum. The third is called by [ l aft us Frutexmarinua Erica facie ,in msfixthBooke of Exotickes, and ninth Chap- 
ter,fee downc by Baubinus both among the Corallines by the name of Corallina rujfefcens exaljerata, and among 
the Fuel jruticibus affinsilati. by the name of Erica finsilu maritima. The fourth isas isfaid in the title ,Clufius his 
Afjnopkyllum Pelagium Cortufi, which Baubinus numbreth among the Mu/ci maritimi l calling it Alufcus maritU 
mus filicis folio, but as I there fay, finding it both in fubdance and quality like unto Coralline, I reckon it here a* 
mong them,and called as QInfius faith by the T Ifher men ‘Pemachie dclte 2 {infc,& P alma di Pfettuno. The 
fifth is fo called by •Sjaf’iBxr as it is inthe title, and fo is the fixth alfo of both forts. Thefeventh is called byC/»- 
fi'.ts Frutexmarinus clcgdntijjimas ,and Planta marina retiformis,(ot I reckon them both as one, or 10 little differing 
that they deferve not to be feparated,which he thinckech commeth neere unto the Palma marina of Thtopbraftsu , 
or fome kinde thereof, but Thcophraflus faith, his Palma marina hath thornes or prickles for the leaves, which 
may better agree with the eighth, if the colour were red and not blacke. Baubinus calleth them Corallina cortice 
reticulata. The lad of both forts islet fonhinthe Italian'Ba/dus of Pom, by the name of the third and fourth forts 
of Antipatbes or blacke Coralline. - 
The Vcrtues. 
We have little or nothing to deliver unto you of any vertnc any of thefe hath bcene tryed to have, favingthac 
the fourth is laid to helpe the bitings of any venemous creature, to hcale wounds fpeedily, and to kill wormer, 
taken in leffe quantity then Coralline,, but are kept as rarities to declare the wonderful! workes of God, in thofe 
Sea plants, which ate as much to be admired as any of the Land. 
Chap. LV. 
CoraUissm. Corall. 
!0 end this relation of the dony Sea Modes, I mud alfo fhew you the Corals (for there aft a number 
I of other Sea Excreffences, which I 
mud paffe over, being of little or no 
ule in Phyficke, and would fill up fun- 
dry flreetes of Paper ) which are,as of 
2. Cosalhomrubrunimajiu, 
Tlie greater red Corail. 
The greater white Corail groweth like the red, 
but isieldome found with fo fmall branches, being 
thicker for the mod part,and although white with¬ 
in, and not fo firme, yet fome what darke coloured 
on the outfide,and as rugged as the red. As ther; :s 
This greater red Corail groweth on the Rockes 
inrhcSea.likeuntoafmalWhrub with arnies and 
branches,breaking forth fome into greater others 
into fmalter (prigs, fet full of knaggy eminences, of 
a pale or whitifii red colour on the outfide for the 
mod part,as it is taken forth of the water, but be¬ 
ing feraped or filed, and poliihed.becommeth very 
faire,as it is ufualfy feer 
more red on the outfide 
much redder within of a firmer or hard dony fub¬ 
dance, after it is kept awhile oucof the water, 
but plalblcwhileitisthere. There is fome other 
forts hereof which grow fmaller by much, and ful¬ 
ler of branches, and are ufually of a better colour 
on the outfide. Cefalpinus maketh mention of a 
kinde of Corail that hath beene found red on the 
outfide and blacke within. 
fundry colours,fo of formes likewife. 
2 . CoraUium album ma]us (Sr minus. 
The greater and the finer white Coral!.' 
I. C oradium rubrstm majus. 
Thegrearer Red Corall. 
