4. Cor Allium nigrum five /Intipathes. Blacke Corall. 
The blacke Corail groweth great below, whereitdickethtothe Rocke.fpreading into fewer branches, bataa 
fmooth as lfthey were pollifhed.and (Lining like Jet it felfc.There is laid to 
be one found that is yellow,elfe like unto the blacke. 
y. Coralliumnigrumhirfutum, RoughbridlyblackeCorall. 
This (ort is often found as tall as any man.and of a large fife in the truncke 
or body,having fundry blacke fprigges like rough briffles, or the aulnes of 
Corne (landing round about it one above another up to the coppe. 
; T The Place and Time. 
Mod of tbefe Coralsate found about MarfeUes, and the He of Sardinia, 
and other places in the ^Mediterranean Sea, and feldome on this fide it, and 
chtir time is with the Others. 
The Names, 
K»£«a w in Greeke is lik'.wife Corallium in Latino, and fo called by all that 
have written of it.and ^hereto nibrumot alhnm, &c, is Let for diftinftion 
fake,yet the white isnpt remembredby THefcorides, Theophrafha , or i’liny, 
and but onely by our trioderne Writers s the blacke lorts are called Antipa- 
thej ,and Corallium nigrum. The lad is fet forth in the Italian IBaldo of Pontt, 
by 'he name ofthe fecond fortof Antipathes, or blacke hairy Corail, and is 
called by the F ilhers of Sardinia Sambeggia. 
The Venue r. 
All the forts of Corall doe coole and binde, yet the white is thought to be 
of a colder operation then the red and the blacke, to be as effeftuall to all 
purpofes as either of the other : but red Corall is of mod ufe, and is com¬ 
mended to be very c fled u all for thofe that (pit blood,or that bleede much ei- 
therac the mouth or nofe,or any other fluxofblood in manor woman, and being often taken in wine or other 
drinkedoth diminifli the fpeene, it hclpeth alfo the gonorrhea in men,and the whites in women, it likewife he!, 
peth them much that are troubled with the Hopping of their water, or hardly make it but by droppes, and alfo 
thofetbath.vetormenti.igpainesof the done in the bladder, if the poucherwhen it is burnt be taken i’ndrinke : 
the pouther tikenin wine, or in water ifthey have aD agne procurcth red as it is (aid : it is good to be given 
to thofe that have the falling fickneffe, or have crampes when it is burned and made into pouther: it d' yeth and- 
bindeth more then before it did : it is alfo much commended againd melancholly and fadncffe,and torefrefh and 
comfort the fainrtng.fpirits: it ftayeth the bleedings of the hemorrhodiall veines,and of wounds,and ofthe men- 
druesjcaufing alfo an eafie delivery of the birth, it alfo fadeneth loofe teeth, helpcch (ore gummes and ulcers in 
the mouth, and healethup foule hollow nlcers in other parts: the afhes thereof being burned, mixed with other 
medicines for the eyes help.eth the watering.heate and redneffe in them,by cooling and drying up the moidure in 
them, although Gc/cx hath made no mention of Corall in his bookeioffimple medicines, yet he appoinreth it as 
an ingredient into fundry medicines,that are for thofe that have the phtificke or cough of the lungs, tending cot 
confumprion,and that fpit blood, and that have foule running lores or ulcers,and to cleanfe Impodhumes. 
Chap. LVI. 
Alia marine plante. Other Sea Plants. 
Here yet remaine fome other forts of Sea plants, which are many of them of a dony fubdance,or 
cruded over like as if they were fo, although while they are in the water, they grow like unto 
trees of divers (hape6 and formes, and becaufe there is no ufe in Phyficke knowne of them, nor 
yet for any other purpofe then to behold thevariable workesofnatue, or rather oftheCSodof 
nature in the Sea, and tofeedc the uiindesof the curious, I willbebreefein them,and but onely 
(hew you them. • 
l. Abies marina. TheScaFirre. 
This as Clufitu hath fetitdowne (who found it on the Sea (Lore of Plunders,) growethupon Oyder or Muf¬ 
fed fhels, feldome above an handfull high, very neerely refembling alow or dwarfe Fure tree, with branches 
fee in order,being fmall and brittle.com pofed as it were of feales, tome being flat and others round compaffing 
the branches all about. Lobel referreth it to the Corallines,calling it CMufcm CoralloitUs alter. 
2. Cuprelfus marina. The Sea Cypreffe. 
This alfo is fo like unto the fmall Cypreffe tree,as nothing can be more, having branches fet round butwith- 
out order,and riling upwards, as the lprigs of the Cypreffe doth, and with leaves thereon in the fame fo me and 
manner: this having becne long kept in a paper booke,and fet in water,will fpread it felfe abroad, and (hew the 
forme as it grew. 
5. Mjrica cl- Erica marina. Sea Tamariske and Sea Heath 
Others alfo he faith he found growing on the like fhels, that were likefome unto Tamariske, andfomeunto 
Heath,being but of a fingers length, with (hort branches covered over with a hoary faltneffe of the Sea, 
4. Refedamarina. Bafewilde Rocket ofthe Sea. 
ClaftM in his fixt booke of Exstkkes.ini fixt Chapter faith,he had this at Amjlerdam^md for the rareneffe,there 
fet it forth to be of a hard wooddy fubdance,cruded over with the white falcneffe of rhe Sea, being not the w hole 
plant,but much of the lower parts, broken away,yet containing fundry branches, covered upwards with fundry 
fmall rougheups or velfcls hanging downewards,of a whitifh afh colour, not much unlike unto the feede veffels 
lingers. 
Hippurtit 
