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Johann Bauhin (12 Dec 1541 - 26 Oct 1613)
Swiss botanist BotanistRelevant locations: Birth place in Basel, Switzerland
Relationships: Johann Bauhin was a brother of Gaspard Bauhin (17 Jan 1560-5 Dec 1624)
Johann Bauhin was a travelling companion of Conrad Gesner (1516-1565)
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Historia plantarvm vniuersalis, nova, et absolvtissima: cvm consensv et dissensv circa eas.
References in Documents:
Moss, by the Paracelsians call'd Usnea. This Moss is
by
them commended for its peculiar Virtue in stopping of
bleeding at the Nose.
Upon comparison it appears to me, to be the same,
specie
Title of
expect the same advantage from the use of this, as of
that
which grows upon Skulls. For a Skull can have no fur
ther influence, than hath the alteration of the soil:
which
although it may produce some differences, yet is sel
dom or never known to alter the specifick Virtue of a
Plant.
Lignum Colubrinum.
There are divers sorts of Woods so call'd. This here is
different from all those
Speciesdescribed by
out of him by
Second. 'Tis above three inches in Diametre, the Barque
thin, the Wood solid, more than that of
Pear-Tree. Of a
very bitter Tast; especially when reduced to powder.
a)
duceth it called,
Palma SacciferaWhether
giveth this under the Name of
Folium Nucis Indicæ, is
uncertain. If so, both the Figure and Description are very
imperfect.
made of
different Work. See one like to this in
nusb)
b)
c. 176.
Aracynappil Paludani; described by b) b)
crowned with a circle of ½ an inch Diametre.
Cotoneaster Ges
neri. (
neri
c)
c)
Tom. 1
nusd) d)
of a little
Limon. 'Tis now yellowish, when fresh,
likely,
of a golden colour. Filled with an innumerable company
of Seeds, which
as hard as
Stones, ¼ of an inch broad, and flat, almost as the
seeds of Lillies.
nus
d)
d)
of a little
Limon. 'Tis now yellowish, when fresh, likely,
of a golden colour. Filled with an innumerable company
of Seeds, which
as hard as Stones, ¼ of an inch broad, and flat, almost as the
seeds of
Lillies.
uneven, with Furrows and Knobs all round
about. The
Furrows, ten. Both the Description and Picture
hereof
taken by a)
a)
cap. 204Platerus; But ill placed.
(now) granulated surface.
Described as I take it by
(b)
b)
cap. 50Fructus Peregrinus orbicularis cuspidatus.
In shape like that
which c)
c)
c. 19
of Myrobal. Rauwolfij; but is much
bigger, near two inches
long, and above an inch and ½
over.
with the mistaken Name of Avellana Indica
minor. And,
out of him, by a)a)
b)
b)
p. 328
the
Title of Fructus reticulato corio: mistaking
it for a Nut.
The greater part of the
Stone is of the same substance with
that of other Plum-stones.
But over this is spread a netted
Work of larg woody Fibers. It was brought from
but it
grows also in
b)
b) See the
Great sort
misplaced in
. 3.
Sect
Sect
Ch. 2
manner by
Cucurbita
Indica Lagenaria:it being not a
Indica Lagenaria:
Gourd, but the Fruit of a
Tree, as is abovesaid. It hath a Head and Belly divided
by a Neck, somewhat resembling an old fashion'd
Flagon.
Diametre. The Neck, two inches long, and about an
inch over. The Head, about as long, and above an inch
and ½ over. Originally, of a straw colour: but by the
Shell very hard, and about a ¼ of an inch thick.
Neck somewhat long and slender, the Belly two inches and
½ over: so as both in figure and bigness to resemble the
Pearfigur'd by
Pirum Stran
gulatorium. On one side, colour'd with a light, on the
gulatorium
other with a deeper yellow.
Abavi Clusij. Of affinity with the
Fruit by Guanabanus.
mistakingly, makes it the same. 'Tis well described and
figur'd by a) a)
c.
42
ling Pomecitrine, and of answerable shape.
The shell of a
good thickness, but not very hard; of a kind of
dusky
green, and faced almost all over with a velvet Down.
should seem,
much more juycy, than in the Calibash.
With
in the Pulp is contained a great number of
Seeds, or little
Stones, of the bigness, and with somewhat of
the shape, of
senting it cut open, to shew the Seeds.
by (a) a)
254Calibash,
or perhaps a small Species thereof. It
is of an Orbicular-
Figure, and of the bigness of a little
Hand-Ball. Though
b)
b)
l. 11. c.
11
Diametre. The shell is thin and brittle. Originally fill'd
with a soft and juycy Pulp, in which a great many Seeds
of the
colour and bigness of an Apple-Kernel.
Junipap, or Junipappeeywa. A
lianc)
c)
253
probably by Janipaba. This also
is a kind of little Calibash. Of the bigness of a Wallnut,
and almost Oval; containing a
Pulp and Seeds much like
those of the Macocquer. It grows upon a tall Tree.
a)
a)
under the Name of Charameis
Acostæ. Yet this here, by
the reduction of the
point or seat of the Flower to the
Base, a little flatish.
nus
Milium Indicum. For what reason I see not, it
having no similitude thereto. That for which it is ob
servable, is, that it looks as if it were artificially turn'd
upon a
Lath. See a rude Figure hereof in
which the
Palmam Montensem; and which
I take to be all one with the
Palmapinus, or the
Palma Coni
fera. 'Tis described and figur'd both by
fera
by
of
Nutsare always found empty, or without a
Kernel.
Which is a mistake; for this here hath one. 'Tis likely all
that he saw (and so he should have said) were barren.
The length of this, about two inches and half; the Dia
metre, one and ½, the Figure Oval. Smooth, and of a
they are about ½ an inch broad) growing lesser towards
both ends, so as in some sort to resemble a
Cone, of the
Picea Latin:or
Male Firr-Tree. Yet a quite different
Fruit: for whereas in a
Cone, the
Seedsor
Kernelsare nu
merous, all placed between the Scales of the
Cone; here
(so far as can be guess'd by the sound) we have but one
single
Kernel, within the hollow of the Shell.
rounder Figure, almost like a
Pippin, and about as big as
a midling
Peach. See the Figure hereof in
der the Title of
Nux Indica Tessellata. They grow in
b)b)
another Species by the Name of Fructus Palmæ Nuciferæ.
Perhaps the Tree may not be improperly call'd Palmacocus,
as bearing a Fruit, though small, yet
resembling the Coco
shell. This is the biggest of several here preserved,
which
make it doubtful, Whether it belong to a Cocus or a Palme.
In length, near ½ a foot; in the middle, two inches
over.
The Base somewhat Oval, and
Prominent, with three
large Holes, as in a Coco; the upper end Conick, and a
little inflected.
Composed of three Valves or Plates,
making so many Angles, below, obscure;
above, more
sharp. The colour mixed, according to the
distribution of
the woody Fibers.
Walnut. In length, an inch and ½; the
Base, an inch over.
Figur'd into a kind of Convex
Cone. Upon the
Marginsof
the three Holes in the
Base, are finely spread a great many
small black
Fibers; like the
Fibrillæof the
Lig.
cili
ciliare
are
round about the
CrystalHumour. See also
scription hereof in
Speciesare here
preserved.
figures one of these
Nutsby the Name of
Nux larvata.
The like is performed in the
. But IGerman
Ephemerides
take this to be a different
Speciesfrom them both. In
length, an inch and ½; an inch over, where thickest; and
of a Conick Figure. The Crown or thicker end of the
Shell is encompassed with a great many small
Fibers, ori
ginally spread all over the Shell, but here clip'd off by
some Body, to make it look like a Head of Hair. About
the middle of the Shell are two natural Holes, ratably
large, like a pair of Eyes; and the upper
Marginsprominent,
like Eye-brows, whereupon are naturally spread a number
of small black
Fibers, like the Hair on the Eye-brows.
Underneath a third Hole, also hairy, standing in the place
of a Mouth. Betwixt which, or before, there are three
little Knobs, which together make no ill resemblance of a
Nose, and the upper Lip all natural; So that, at the first
sight, one would take it to be a little Head of a
Greyhound
carved in Wood.
what compressed, Figur'd in some sort by a)a)
under the Title of Avellana Indica
peculiaris Camerarij.
Garcias ,
Bauhinus
Faufel.
Bauhinus
of
Plum-Tree. (
b)
b)
Hist.
of
of
it here. Described in
Name of
Medicorum vulg
c)
c)
Wormian.
ness of a
Filbert. The shell blackish, thin, and brittle, and
somewhat angular. Within, there is a white soft Body,
commonly, but
Kernel. For this
Body is not divided, as are all
Kernels, into two distinct
Lobes, but is one entire part. Yet so as to have some little
hollowness in the middle, capable to lodge a very thin
Filme. This
Filme, is the true
Kernel, consisting not only
of two large and perfect Leaves (answerable to the two
Kernels) but of those parts also, which in
time become the Trunk and Root of the Tree.
These Nuts work strongly both by Vomit and
Stool; a)
Tom. 1
(a)
four or five of them a great
Dose. Being eaten tosted,
or injected in Clysters, (b) b)
des
them, they are a present Remedy in the
Cholick. One
thing, very
observable, is mention'd by Mr. c) c) In his
Book of the
Origine of
Forms
since, also by Mr. d) and that is, That the Cathartick Power of the Nut, although so great, yet lies only
or chiefly in
that very thin Filme above-said, by me
affirmed
to be the Kernel: for this
being taken out, the rest may be
eaten, as any other Nut.d) Hist. of
Barb
Indian
Nut
half an inch over; with a pretty hard Rind, and of a
shining black. Excepting the colour, very like to that de
scribed and figur'd in
Nucula
Exotica Pistacij specie.
Exotica Pistacij specie
Castanea purgatrix. Well
described and figur'd in
Calceolarius's Musæum. (e) e)
Figure in f) f)
lib. 3. c. 116
Fructus Indicus decussatus) not so good. 'Tis
a blackish
Fruit, about an inch and ¼ long, almost
square, and pretty
flat. But that which is most observable, is
the double Sinus
which compasseth it both by the length and breadth, as if
it had been girded across with a string. And, as it were, a
Crescent on that side, by which it grows to the Shell.
b)
little Nutmeg, 'tis of a brown colour, and with two
pointed knobs at one end, bended outward, like little
Horns. Figur'd, as I take it, in d)
d)
c. 104. Fig. 3
Name of Fructus peregrinus, exiguus
orbicularis, cum Sex Nervis.
likeness it hath to a little
Heart; but yet flattish, and near as
big as a
Garden-Bean. Described and figur'd by
to the flame of a
Candle, (
e)
e)
of divers colours. Anciently much used in Medicines, now
obsolete, as
Confectio Anacardina, &c. The Oil or Mellagi
nousSuccus
nous
betwixt the Rind and the Kernel is that which is
called(
called
f)
f)
Wormian
(given it by most) or of Honey, must be improper. It
is of a very Caustick and venimous Nature. Being mixed
g)
Tom. 1. 336
with
Lime, 'tis used for the marking of
Cottons(
g) through
out
India .
The
pickle the green Fruit, (
h)
h)
ab Horto
and eat
them as Olives. When perhaps they contain little or none
them as Olives
of that Caustick Oil.
Bauhinus ,
Piso
monly so
call'd. Nux Vomica Officinarum. Very well
de
scribed (c)
c)
midling
Troch, cover'd with short Hair, of a
greenish
brown. Very hard, and horny, and almost solid; saving
that in the middle it incloses, as the Barbado-Nut, a thin
Filme, which is the true seed; whereof the
said horny Body,
called the Nut, is
only a great thick Cover.
This Fruit is, by Celaspine, most absurdly
called Fungus Orientalis. And d)
d)
c. 30
no Body knows certainly what it
is. Whereas, by Dissecti
on, it plainly appears to be
a Fruit.
I find, that Cordus goeth thus far, as to
observe, That
within this Nut is
contained a Rudiment of the future
Plant, consisting as it
were of two little pretty veined
Leaves, and a Stalk. But that
these Leaves were the two
Lobes or main Body of the Seed, that the
Stalk of these
Leaves, as he calls it, was the Root, and that
between these
Leaves was cooped the Bud, of the future Plant,
are things
whereof he had not the least notion. Neither did he
know
(for he speaks of it as a peculiar) that the like
conspicuous
foliation, is, as in truth it is, observable in
the seeds of a great
many other Plants.
Half a Drachm of this Nut, given to a Dog, in powder,
hath
kill'd him, saith
hath put
a Dog into so great Convulsions, that he hath dy'd
in less
than half an hour.
monly so
call'd. Nux Vomica Officinarum. Very well
de
scribed (c)
c)
midling
Troch, cover'd with short Hair, of a
greenish
brown. Very hard, and horny, and almost solid; saving
that in the middle it incloses, as the Barbado-Nut, a thin
Filme, which is the true seed; whereof the
said horny Body,
called the Nut, is
only a great thick Cover.
Nux Methel Officinarum.
So that by a mistake, the Names of the Nut before describ'd,
Fruit described by a)
a)
l. 3. c. 144Nux peregrina oculata &
compressa: from its flatness, although
a little
swelling on one side; and from the resemblance
which the
Seed-Cells, in number five, have to so-many little
Eyes.
. Given byLebanon . Conus
Cedri magnæ s. Libani
Cedri magnæ s. Libani
scribed and figur'd by
a)
a)
c. 15
represented by far too narrow or not enough expanded:
in which
and ½ long, and two and ½ over; of an Oval Figure, saving
that the top is flat. Of this Tree it is affirmed by
Lussy
b)
b)
Peregrinat.
Hierosolym.
cap. 13
them grow) there are some so thick, that six or seven men
can hardly encompass one of them with their Arms
stretched out: which may be supposed above half as thick
again, as the thickest
Oakin
Conus Abietis maris
s. Piceæ Latinorum. Described by
s. Piceæ Latinorum
abundantly in
height (
c)
c)
Cone
almost Cylindrical, about eight inches long. To each
Scale underneath, two winged Seeds or little Kernels are
adjoyned. Curiously pictur'd by
Lobus Buglossoideus, so I
call it for its being somewhat like a Cows Tongue. De
a)
a)
c. 3Ceratium Monococcon
Indicum. But this here, is thrice as big as his. 'Tis
ten inches long; in the middle, 4 ½ over; both ends some
what Oval. Very flat, scarce above ½ an inch
where thick
est; the Belly level, the Back Convex and
with a blunt
Ridge. Of a dull russet, and all over rough with
a great
number of small Knobs. Its whole Cavity is filled up
with one single Fruit; which
only calls it Fructum ex fungosa
quadam materie compactum.
Whereas it consisteth
chiefly of a wonderful Congeries of
white Fibers; not produced by the length, or breadth, but
the thickness of the Fruit, both ways, as the Teeth in a
double Comb. The spaces betwixt which are filled up
with dust
or powder; which was originally, the sappy Parenchyma or Flesh of the Fruit.
Lobus Buglossoideus, so I
call it for its being somewhat like a
CowsTongue. De
a)
a)
c. 3
Ceratium Mono
coccon Indicum. But this here, is thrice as big as his. 'Tis
coccon Indicum
ten inches long; in the middle, 4 ½ over; both ends some
what Oval. Very flat, scarce above ½ an inch where thick
est; the Belly level, the Back Convex and with a blunt
Ridge. Of a dull russet, and all over rough with a great
number of small Knobs. Its whole Cavity is filled up
with one single Fruit; which
only calls it
Fructum ex fungosa quadam materie compactum.
Whereas it consisteth chiefly of a wonderful Congeries of
white
Fibers; not produced by the length, or breadth, but
the thickness of the Fruit, both ways, as the Teeth in a
double Comb. The spaces betwixt which are filled up
with dust or powder; which was originally, the sappy
Pa
renchymaor Flesh of the Fruit.
renchyma
kin to that
described and figur'd in d)
d)
c. 8
Name of Lobus Brasilianus ingens Siliquæ
Acaciæ formâ.
The whole Lobe, is above two feet long; where broadest,
near four inches, flat; and composed of six or seven
Joynts, as
or
scallop'd on both Edges, as to look like so many
Lobe, are only
three. In each
of them is contained a great NUT round and
flat,
and of a shining Bay; an inch and ½ Diametre, and
half
an inch thick. In the Lobe Bauhinus
describes they were
not ripe.
kin to that described and figur'd in
d)
d)
c. 8
Name of
Lobus Brasilianus ingens Siliquæ Acaciæ formâ.
The whole
Lobe, is above two feet long; where broadest,
near four inches, flat; and composed of six or seven
Joynts, as
or scallop'd on both Edges, as to look like so many
Lobe, are only three. In each
of them is contained a great NUT round and flat,
and of a shining Bay; an inch and ½ Diametre, and half
an inch thick. In the
LobeBauhinus
describes they were
not ripe.
Cat's
Kidney;
having at the edge a shallow Sinus or depressure where it
was fasten'd to the Lobe. Described in a)
a)
c. 1. p. 276
the Name of
is most likely, very
improperly; This being so like the
Fruit of the Scallop'd Lobe above describ'd, which he him
self makes the Fruit of a Tree; Neither doth the
Kernels,
its being naturally cleft into two halfs, (ut sunt omnia Phaseolacea, as
not peculiar to
the Phaseolous kind; but all other Seeds
whatsœver, excepting Corn and that Kindred, are natu
rally cleft (b) b) See the
Authors
Book Of Plants, Chap.
1Lobes. This Fruit is said
to be Cathartick: and therefore 'tis probable, the other
Species are so likewise.
figur'd in some
sort in c)
c)
p. 277Faba Americana purgatrix longior.
'Tis two inches and ¼ long,
an inch and ½ broad,
flat, the edges thick, of an Oval shape,
and dusky ash-colour.
Where it was fasten'd to the Lobe,
not
depressed, as in the former, but a little produc'd.
So many of the above-said Fruits, as are described by
as if a sort of Beans. But by
comparing them all toge
ther, and with the Fruit of
the Scallop'd Lobe; they appear
to have
been all included in the Lobes of several
sorts of
Trees.
Piso .
Bauhinus
hereof. Well described by b) b)
c. 46
riously figur'd. Here, upon one Stalk, hang about 15
Cods,
most of them three inches long, thick as a Goose-Quill,
fibrous, and of the colour
of Cloves; containing ten or
twelve blackish and longish
Seeds, each in a Cell by it
self; not half so big as the least
of
French-Beans, which
of the Laburnum majus. Neither, according to the
same
Author, hath it the tast of black
Pepper, but rather of the
Clove; viz. not much biting, yet very Aromatick, especially
being well heated
at a fire.
QUAMOCHIT
QUAMOCLIT
and
figur'd in c) c)
cap. 11
broad, and sharp-pointed. Divided into twenty
or four
and twenty distinct Cells, made by so many thin Mem
branes, for the lodging of as many Seeds apart, of a
dark
Bay, and somewhat like those of Broom.
seems to describe and picture (a) a)
Cap. 17
Phasiolus peregrinus magnus, colore
Castaneæ, cum magno hilo, lævis. About
half as big again as a Chesnut, flatish,
and having a broad, blackish Seat, reaching above half its
compass. Whereby it appears to be of the Bean-kind,
and no Phasiolus;
the Seat whereof, like that of the Lupine,
is always round. Of these Beans, are here preserved both
black and bay.
Papyrus Nilotica. By the
Berd. Given by Sigr.
it out of
b) b)
c. 196Species of Cyperus,
to which (in Leaf and Stalk) it is like; but hath a more compacted Head. This
seems to have been no tall Plant:
but upon its Native Bed, sc. near the Banks of the Nile
nus
Mother knowing, chose well, to lay her Babe in Pharaohs
Daughter's way, yet, in the mean time, under good shelter
from the scorching Sun.
Whistler
it bears Bulbs at the
top of the Stalk. Described by
a)
a)
c. 3Allium proliferum: al
though Bulbiferum, be more apposite; for
that every
Plant which bears Seed, is proliferous; the
Seed being
Plantæ Proles, or the Fœtus of a Plant. The Bulbs (not
fully
described) are about twenty; in a round Head or
Cluster as big
as a Nutmeg; each Bulb
equal to a mid
ling Peas;
consisteth of four or five shells; of which, the
outmost is
shrunk up to a dry Skin, on one side, of a pur
plish
colour; the inmost incloseth that little Particle which
in time becomes another bulbiferous
Stalk, with a Root.
Aristolochia Polyrrhizos. So called in distinction from the
other kinds with
tuberous Roots. Described (a) a)
c. 8
in
the Species the most Aromatick, as by tasting the Roots,
although now very old, may easily be perceiv'd.
green, might weigh four or five ounces. And is said to be
dug up, sometimes, of fourteen Ounces. The
Plantun
certainly describ'd.
La
chryma Jobi;Lobelius ,(
chryma Jobi;
c)
c)
Bals
Reed;Garcias , to a
Flag;
Cod.
of the Male, the other of the Female: and supposeth, that
the uncertainty of Relations hereof may proceed partly
from the not distinguishing betwixt them. The Stalk of
the Male indeed seems to have some little likeness to a
Flag.
But the Seed-Cod is there neither figur'd nor describ'd.
described (a) a)
c. 1
Strumosus
long, thickest towards the top, and there
a little depressed
as an Apple. Soft
and brittle, and now just of the colour
of Buff-Leather. The Warts or Knobs all round about it,
are neither blisters, nor solid, but embossed parts of the
Rind.
Siliqua
Apocyni latifolij. Given by
and
figur'd in d) d)
c. 15. p.
135
thicker than their natural shape. Of kin to that which
Scammony of Montpelier. Along the
middle or centre of the Cod, runs a slender fibrous pillar,
to
which, and not to the sides of the Cod, the
Seeds are
fasten'd on both sides it; and so encompassed about
with
Down, wherewith the Cod is fill'd up. A provident fore
cast of
Nature to keep them warm. The said Down
con
sisteth not of single Hairs, but Plumes, affixed to the Seeds,
wherewith
they are winged for their being more dispersed
ly
wafted by the Aer, and prevent their falling
in a ruck on
the ground.
Tribulus aquaticus. De
scribed in
colour; divided into four thick and sharp-pointed Spikes,
quadrangularly. In the centre of which is lodged a white
and well tasted Kernel. They grow in the Rivers and
Lakes in
the people make
Breadof the Kernels.
TangierWHEAT. Given by the Ho
nourable
described in
Triticum cum mul
tiplici Spicâ. For it is a great broad Spike, as it were
tiplici Spicâ
branched out into several little lesser ones; yet all closely
compacted: in the middle ½ inch thick, and an inch and ¼
broad; four long, and sharp pointed.
(Phaseolus . Abrus coccineum majus.
Bauhinus
a)
a)
p. 264
Pisum America
num; improperly, for that the
num
Peasen, and the
Phaseolous
some oversight, is placed that of a sort of
Palme-Nut. 'Tis
a scarlet Fruit about as big as a
Rounseval Peas, and some
what flat.
sc. near
an inch long, and above ½ an inch over; of a long Oval
Figure, so as to resemble a
SparrowsEgg. But of a shining
blewish ash-colour, like a
Jaspis.Bauhinus (
a)
a)
p. 276
describes a Fruit (or Seed) pretty like to this, with the Name
of
Phaseolus Ovo Columbino ferè similis. But by his De
scription it is neither of the
Phaseolous, nor
Fabaceous, but
of the
Peas-kind; as both This, and the two precedent
ones, also are. The
Characteristickof which kind is, To
have the
Placenta, and so the
Seatof it, always very
small.
Name of
Pisum Americanum coccinem s. Abrus minus. Al
though the
Abrus majusbe of the
Phaseolouskind. 'Tis
of the bigness of a young
Peas, of an Oval shape, and
Scarlet colour, when fresh very pure; and adorned upon
the seat of the
Placentawith a black spot. Here are some
also of the same sort, all over black. They grow in
gascar
them for weights. In
Necklacesand
Braceletsfor the
Wrists.
Arachoides Honorij Belli, s.
Cretica. Described, in a)
a)
c. 19
whom the Name.
The Seed it self, like a little Lentil.
Seldom more than one in a Cod. The Cod is short and
broad, about the
bigness of a Silver Half-peny; On the
outside cancellated or favous, almost as in the seed of
Poppy.
Carduusheaded HAWKWEED.
The Plant described by
Hawkweed,
and of a yellowish straw colour; a little crooked, with the
top swell'd and pointed, and view'd in a Glass, appears
wrinkled round about.
Muscus arbor: Villosus. By whom it is
mistakenly said to be woody: it being wholly of a pithy
substance, and having all its Branches hollow as so many
little Pipes: from whence I have nam'd it.
Muscus
terrestris ramosus minor. Of the same
terrestris ramosus minor
Specieswith the
Skull-
Mosse. Described in
Mosse
of
Muscus Abietis facie.
Spangle-(Lib. 39.
c. 30. and
figur'd .
Wort. Described in
a)
c. 30. and
figur'd
Wort
a) by the Name of
Opuntia
marina. By
marina
b) with the Name of
Serot
lara. It consisteth wholly of Leaves, joyned edge to edge, as
lara
b)
in the
; Somewhat round, and scallop'd, and notIndian -Fig
Spangle. The inward part of the
Leaves is fibrous, and by small woody Threds are tacked
together. But, as in
Coralline, covered all over with a white
Crust; which, in like manner, makes a strong
Effervescence
with
Acidliquors.
Sea-Plant, Perhaps of affinity
with that in
Coralloides lenta fœniculacea.
The several Sprigs hereof are toothed, as in the
Sea-Mil
foyle, but with finer or smaller Work. It stinks, upon burn
foyle
ing, as the former.
Erica marina. Described and figur'd
in
Branches in a round and plain
Base.
Sea-Plant(without a Figure) by the Name of
Fucus cavus,
but of a quite different kind;
sc. with the Leaves like a
Fillet. Whereas this is a Cluster or Brush of cylindrical,
pellucid, and strait unbranched Pipes, about the thickness of
a great stitching Needle.
Corallium geniculatum. Pseudocorallium fungosum Ambrosini. (a) a)
Mus. MetallMadrepora ramosa Imperati. (b)
By which Name
'Tis striated without, and radiated within,
almost as in the
precedent. And is also ringed or knoted
without, after b)
Cap. 4
the manner of Canes, or
rather the upright Equisetum,
and near
of the same thickness.
kind a kin to this, yet
distinct; not only knoted, but joynted,
and by him therefore
called CORALO Articulato, in which
of another.
C. alb. oculatum
Officinarum.
Very well describ'd and figur'd by b)
b)
c. 4
c)
This sort is fistular, and hath
large round
holes in the sides of the Branches, sometimes near
¼ of an c)
c
inch over; somewhat like a Birds Eye.
by the Name of
Planta Saxea Abrotonoides. Of whom
'Tis white, and porous; especially the centre of every
Branch, in imitation of a Pith. The several Branches
we may call them,
Coral-Leaves, curiously striated round
about.
Fungites. Figur'd by
(a)
a)
c. 60
sides as it were
crushed together. Waved round about, and
the Rim raised like a border pretty high.
Plantcalled
NINSIN. The whole
Plantis drawn after the
Lifeon
Parchment, in Colours.
The
Root, of a redish yellow; about five or six inches long,
and near as thick as a
Skirret:agreeing with the De
scription hereof in the
Catalogue.
Stalkas thick as a
Wheaten-straw, and a foot high. The
Leavessomewhat like those of the
Stock-Gilly-Flower. The
Flowersredish in the Bud, and white when open; three and
three together, and composed of six round
Leaves, like
those of the
Round-Flower'd Molyfigur'd in
not so big.
1. Coral
both which some are ramified in solid massy bodies; others
(the rarer sort,) are Corallin incrustations upon truly wood
den and branchy sticks, and do terminate in small and tender
Corallin buttons or flowers; in some of which the Presenter
affirm'd to have, upon squeezing them, found a lacteous Juice.
Himself having been present at the Coral-fishing in the
nel of Messina
a letter of his, written on that subject to Marchetti
Professor of the Mathematiques at
ral-fishers drew their nets out of the water, he immersed
his hand and arm into the Sea to feel, whether the Coral was
soft under the water before it was drawn up into the air, and
found it altogether hard, except the round end, above-men
tioned under the name of button; which having been bruised
with his nails, he found it made up of five or six little cells,
full of a white and somewhat mucilaginous liquor, resembling
that milky Juice, found in Summer in the long cods of the
herb, call'd Leven, because
having tasted it himself, as well as the Mariners did, they
always found it of a sharp and adstringent taste, in such pie
ces as came recently out of the Se; those that are dried
loosing that part of the taste which is acrimonious, and re
taining only that which is adstringent: Which change of
taste he affirms to be made in about six hours after the Coral
hath been drawn up; in which time also the said Leven, that
is inclosed in the pores, is dried, and hath changed its co
lour. He inclines strongly to the opinion of those who con
ceive, that the long concoction of the ferment fixes the parts,
and produces the red colour, especially being near to the
hard coral, and the red vermillion, which surrounds it.
Feather-Grass the Gramen Plumosum of
of a
Sugar Cane.