growing upon Aids hones,2cc. in the Scahowfhouldit.be expefled 
to lie.ire'any (eede, yet Label and others would wrcflle, curtail, and 
alter Dwfcorides text,to make itferve their turne.butafluredly the true 
j 4 tiArofe.cc, is not yet found out and made knowne for any thing that 
I can underhand,and therefore let Matthiohu hill have the honour of 
this Sea plant. 
The Virtues* 
There is nothing extant of the properties of any of the former re¬ 
cited plants,and tut by Label , none of this who yet would aSTimilate 
lome of the properties of Dbfcoridci bixsaAndroface unto this, that is, 
to provoke urine, andtodigeff the humours gathered to the j'oynts,. 
procuring pamesand aches,goutes,arid the like, vice know faith Label 
that this doth binde the belly.fo farre of it is from loofening it,rs forne 
have thought. I have knowne fomc to put tin's hone into the Vtfguen .. 
turn Citnxum becaufe it is called Vmbilicm marimu yet I have feene a 
foetthatisreddifh. 
8. rtnJrofaeeMaltbitlifi vf Coty'edcn 
aarixa cr Vmb'iluiu mannui, 
ThcScaNavclI. 
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Chap. Lyil. 
SpmgU & fpmgioj-’* plant*. Spunges and Spongious plants. 
i iicic 
Ifides the Sponges themfelres,which are of fundry differing formes and colours, there arc alfo man-' 
other Sea Excreffcnces, (whether I fliould call them plants or no I know not well jehat are of a Spon¬ 
gy lubftance, which laflly I muff bring ro your vie w. y 
•ApongmmarinattfmUi. Theordinary Sponges. 
. ’ .» ufc. unuuidi y opongC5, 
ordinary Spongesthac we have daily ufc of, are fome bigger others Icfler, fome round, feme fiat fome 
limp vpllnurrhlnMP nrliprc no!/* urtvir* rXma „I, i _11 .. i .1 . 'r 
r - r - & . —---&5 V * itncr, iumc rouna, iome siat, lome 
of a browne yellow colour, others pale yellow or almoft white, fome alfo dole and hard, others more loofc and 
open and (on e of a fine thinnefubftance,and others ofa courier and thicker, Bauhizw relateth that fome forts 
were called Hircina, another Ve/aru^notbci Rame/a fifiulafa, with divers other names, f will therefore oncly 
flrew vou that Sponges like othercxcrcflences are bred in the Sea,growing from fome (lone, Rocke, See. or the 
giQuna it lvlfcj and by the Seas operation in fome places differing from others,, brought to the forme as well as 
colour. 
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