Linum

LINUM, called in Hebrew, Bad, a ,בדBad Linum.Plant very well known, the Bark whereof being prepared, serves to make very fine, and very much esteemed Linnen Clothes.

,בוץ Buz. Byssus. ,שש Schesch. Gossypion.There is another Sort of Linnen which the Scripture calls Schesch, and which we believe to be Cotton. See above the Article COTTON.

Under the Name of Linnen Byssus is included; but this was something very different from both Linnen and Cotton. It was a kind of Silk fastened to a Fish inclosed in the red Naker, which Rondelet calls Pinna magna. See above BYSSUS.

Lastly, the Plant Linum is in Hebrew named¹ Phishtah, as well as that whereof Clothes were made.

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