The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Cortusus, Professor of Botany at Padua ( - )
References in Documents:This Plant hath the same odd property, with several of
the
Sea-Shrubs before described; which
is, that being fired,
it makes a strong stinking smoak,
like that of burnt Bones,
Horns, or other parts of
Animals. And may therefore be
deservedly commended by
probable, all the rest of the stinking kind, some of which
are much more plentiful and easily procur'd, may have the
like Virtue.