The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 





5. Geranium R<itr t nhoi(ks iilterum Jiorf f>urf>ttrco. 

 Purple Crowfoote Cranes bill. 



This purple Cranes bill hath many leaues rifing from the roote, fct vpon long foot- 

 ftalkes, foiiK'what like vnto tlu other, yet not fo broad, but more diuidcd or cut, that 

 is, into 1'euen or more Hits, euen to the middle, each whereof is likewife cut in on the 

 edges more deeply then the former ; the (talkes are fomewhat knobbed at the ioynts, 

 fet with leaues like vnto the lower, and bearing a great tuft of buds at the toppes of the 

 branches, which breake out into faire large flowers, made of fiue purple leaues, which 

 doe fomewhat referable the flower of a Mallow, before it be too full blowne, each 

 whereof hath a reddilh pointell in the middle, and many fmall threads comparting it, 

 this vmbell or tuft of buds doe flower by degrees, and not all at once, and euery flower 

 abideth open little more then one day, and then (heddeth, fo that eucry day yeeldeth 

 frdh flowers, which becaufe they are fo many, are a long while before they are all 

 pall or I pent : after the flowers arc part, there arife fmall beake heads or bils, like vnto 

 the other Cranes bils, with fmall turning feede : the rootc is compofed of a great tuft 

 of llrings, fattened to a knobby head. 



6. Gerunittm Romanum ixrfeolor Jiue Jtriatum. The variable rtript Cranes bill. 



This beautifull Cranes bill hath many broad yellowilh greene leaues arifing from 

 the roote, diuided into fiue or fix parts, but not vnto the middle as the firrt kindes are : 

 each of thefe leaues hath a blackilh fpot at the bottome corners of the diuilions, the 

 whole leafe as well in forme as colour and fpots, is very like vnto the leafe of the Ge- 

 rtinium fu fc um, or fpotted Cranes bill, next following to be defcribed, but that the 

 leaues of this are not I'o large as the other : from among thefe leaues fpring vp fundry 

 Italkes a foote high and better, ioynted and knobbed here and there, bearing at the 

 tops two or three fmall white flowers, confuting of fiue leaues a peece, fo thickly & va- 

 riably Itriped with fine fmall reddifh veines, that no green leafe that is of that bignefle 

 can fhew fo many veines in it, nor fo thick running as euery leafe of this flower doth : in 

 the middle of the flower rtandeth a fmall pointell, which when the flower is part doth 

 grow to be the feed vertell, whereon is fet diuers fmall feeds, like vnto the fmall feedes 

 of other Cranes bils : the root is made of many fmall yellow threads or firings. 



7. Geranium fujcum Jiue maculatum. Swart tawny or fpotted Cranes bill. 



The leaues of this Cranes bill are in all points like the laft defcribed, as well in the 

 torme and diuilions as colour of the leaues, being of a yellowHh greene colour, but 

 larger and ftronger by much : the Italkes of this rife much higher, and are ioynted or 

 knobbed with reddifh knees or ioynts, on the tops whereof ftand not many although 

 large flowers, confuting of fiue leaues a peece, each whereof is round at the end, and a 

 little fnipt round about, and doe bend or turne themfelues backe to the (talkewards, 

 making the middle to be highelt or molt eminent ; the colour of the flower is of a darke 

 or deepe blackifh purple, the bottome of euery leafe being whiter than the rert ; it hath 

 allo a middle pointell Itanding out, which afterwards bring forth feede like vnto o- 

 thers of his kinde : the roote conlilteth of diuers great (trings, ioyned to a knobby 

 head. 



8. Geranium Hcmatodes. The red Rofe Cranes bill. 



This Cranes bill hath diuers leaues fpread vpon the ground, very much cut in or 

 diuided into many parts, and each of them againe flit or cut into two or three peeces, 

 ftanding vpon (lender long foote-rtalkes, of a faire greene colour all the Spring and 

 Summer, but reddilh in Autumne : among thefe leaues fpring vp (lender and weake 

 (talkes, befet at euery ioynt (which is fomewhat reddirti) with two leaues for the mo(t 

 part, like vnto the lower : the flowers grow feuerally on the toppe of the (talkes, and 

 not many together in bunches or branches, as in all other of the Cranes bils, euery 

 flower being as large as a (ingle Rofe Campion flower, conlilting of fiue large leaues, 



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