230 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



of a deeper red colour then in any other Cranes bill at the firft opening, and will 

 change more blewifh afterwards : when the flower is part, there doth arife fuch like 

 beakes as are in others of the fame kinde, but fmall : the roote is hard, long, and thicke, 

 with diuers branches fpreading from it, of a reddifh yellow colour on the outfide, and 

 whitifh within, which abideth and perifheth not, but fhooteth forth fome new greene 

 leaues, which abide all the Winter, although thofe that turne red doe fall away. 



Geranium Creticum. Candy Cranes bill. 



Candy Cranes bill beareth long and tender ftalkes, whereon growe diuers broad 

 and long leaues, cut in or iagged on the edges : the toppes of the ftalkes are branched 

 into many flowers, made of flue leaues of a reaf enable bigneffe, and of a faire blew 

 or watchet colour, with a purplifh pointell in the middle, which being part, there fol- 

 low beake heads like other Cranes bils, but greater, containing larger, greater, and 

 fharper pointed feede, able to pierce the skinne, if one be not warie of it : the roote is 

 white and long, with fome fibres at it, and perifheth when it hath perfected his feede, 

 and will fpring of it owne fowing many times, if the Winter be not too (harpe, other- 

 wife (being annuall) it muft be fowne in the Spring of the yeare. 



The Place. 



Moft of thefe Cranes bils are ftrangers vnto vs by nature, but endenizond 

 in our Englifh Gardens. It hath beene reported vnto mee by fome of good 

 credit, that the fecond or Crowfoot Cranes bill hath been found naturally 

 growing in England, but yet I neuer faw it, although I haue feen many forts 

 of wilde kindes in many places. Matthiolus faith that the firft groweth in 

 Dalmatia and Illyria very plentifully. Camerarius, Clufius, and others, that 

 moft of the reft grow in Germany, Bohemia, Auftria, &c. The laft hath 

 his place recorded in his title. 



The Time. 



All thefe Cranes bils doe for the moft part flower in Aprill, and May, 

 and vntill the middle of lune. The variable or ftript Cranes bill is vfually 

 the lateft of all the reft. 



The Names. 



The firft is vfually called Geranium tuberofum, of fome Geranium bulbofum, 

 of the likeneffe ot the roote vnto a bulbe : It is without controuerfie Gera- 

 nium primum of Diofcorides. The fecond is called Geranium Gratia Dei, of 

 others, Geranium ceeruleum. The blew Cranes bill Lobel calleth it Eatra- 

 choides, becaufe both leafe and flower are like vnto a Crowfoote ; and the af- 

 finity with the Cranes bils in the feede caufeth it rather to be referred to 

 them then to the Crowfeete. The ftript Cranes bill is called by fome Ge- 

 ranium Romanum. The laft fauing one is called Geranium Hamatodes, or 

 Sanguineum, of Lobel Geranium Gruinale Hamatodes fupinum radice repente. 

 In Englifh it may be called after the Greek and Latine, The bloudy Cranes 

 bill, but I rather call it, The Rofe Cranes bill, becaufe the flowers are as 

 large as lingle Rofes, or as the Rofe Campion. Some of them are called in 

 many places of England Baffinets. 



The Vertues. 



All the kindes of Cranes bils are accounted great wound herbes, and ef- 

 feftuall to ftay bleedings, yet fome more then others. The Emperickes of 

 Germanic, as Camerarius faith, extoll it wonderfully, for a lingular reme- 

 die againtl the Stone, both in the reines and bladder. 



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