22 o Salmons Herbal. Lib. I. 
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P hint has no Smell at all ■, or if it has any , it is not 
of the Musky kind this has Red Flowers : But 
there Is alj'o another Species of this Inodorous kind , 
nothing differing from the luff hut in the color of 
the Flowers , the color of thefe being white. 
V. The third , or Italian Musked Cranes-bill, has 
a Root fmall and yellow, lifting up its head a little 
above ground, from 'whence Jpring up fever al long 
Leaves , fomewhat hairy , lying upon the ground , and 
a little f nipt or cut in on the edges , and divided in- 
to part s, even to the middle Rib , not much unlike to 
the Geranium Mofchatum fir ft dcfcribed , which 
ft and upon reddifh Footftalks , the two loweft Jaggs 
being greater than the reft but thofe which rife 
up with the Stalk are more cut in , fomewhat like 
unto the lower Leaves of Coriander or Fetherfew, 
but with rounder dents * the Stalks are Jointed and 
Kneed , with two fuch like Leaves at them , but more 
finely jagged : at the tops of the Stalks and Branch- 
es the blowers grow, of a pale blewifh purple color, 
each ft ending in a green hairy Husk , wherein after- 
wards ft and the heads of Seed , very like to the other 
kinds , great below and fmall above. The whole 
Riant above ground is of a Rleafing Sweet Musky 
Smell , like the firft of thefe , and of which it is a 
Species. 
VI. The fourth, or Candy Cranes-bill, has a Root I 
which is long and white , with fome Fibres adjoining I 
to it and perifhes when it hen perfetted its Seed : I 
from this Root fpring up fever al long and tender I 
Stalks, foft and full of Juice, upon which grow fe- 
ver al broad and tong winged Leaves, not much un- 
like to the firft Musked Cranes-bill, cut in, or notch- 
ed on the edges. Thefe Stalks fpread themfelves 
out into many Branches, more efpecially towards the 
Top, on the Tops of which grow many Flowers made 
of five Leaves apiece , of a reafonable bignefs, and I 
of a fair Blew, or Watchet color, with a purplifh 
Pointel in the middle, which being paft, beak-like 
heads follow, as in the other Cranes-bills, but great- 
eb, and containing larger, great eb, and J, harper point- 
ed Seed, able to pierce the skin. This Plant fprings 
up many times of its own Sowing , if the Winter is 
not too fharp -, otherwife being Annual, it muft be 
Sown in the Spring of the Tear. 
VII. The Places. The two firft grow Wild ( fays 
Parkinfon ) in many places of this Land, as well 
in Meadows as wafte Grounds. But the firft is now 
nurfed up in Gardens for its plealant fweet Smell. 
The fecond is found fometimes upon Heaths, and ' 
dry Gravelly places, but much fmaller than when it 
grows in better or richer Ground. The third was 
brought to us out of Italy , and the fourth out of 
Candia, and in England are only nurs’d up in . Gar- 
dens , where they grow very well. 
VIII. The Times. They Flower in June and July, 
and the Seed ripens not long after : the Candy 
Cranes-bill, Gerard faith, flowered with him for the 
moft part in May. 
IX. As for the Vitalities, Specification , Prepara- 
tions and Virtues ( thefe being of the fame nature 
with the Wild Cranes-bills ) fee them in Chap. 162. 
following. Thefe here are accounted excellent 
Wound Herbs, and equal to Doves-foot : The Cre- 
tick or Candy Cranes-bill being ufed in Wound 
Drinks, does far. excell ( as Gerard fays ) any of 
the Cranes-bills, and is equal with any other Wound 
Herb whatfoever for the fame purpofe. 
CHAP. CLXI. 
Of CRANES-RILL-Crowfoot. 
I. 'T' H E Names. It is called in Greek, Ti&.viov 
X (ldL7ev.ytonhs : In Latin, Geranium Bairachi - 
oides. Gratia Dei Fuchfij, Ranunculus cceruleus .* 
and in Englifh, Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 
II. The Kinds. There are fix feveral kinds here- 
of, 1. Geranium Batrachioides flore Cgruleo, Blew 
Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 2. Geranium Batrachioides 
flore albo. White Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 3. Gera- 
nium Batrachioides alter urn, flore pur pur eo. Purple 
Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 4. Geranium Batrachioides , 
pullo flore. Dark Red Crowfoot Canes-bill. 5. Ge- 
ranium Batrachioides flore albo ffl Cxrulco vario. 
Party colored Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 6 . Geranium 
Batrachioides longius radicatum Lobelij , Long Root- 
ed Crowfoot Cranes-bill. 
III. TheDefcriptions. The firft, or Blew Crowfoot 
Cranes-bill, has a Root which is compofed of many 
reddifh firings, fpreading in the Ground, from a 
head made of divers red heads, which lye oftentimes 
above ground, from this Root fpring forth many large 
Leaves, cut into five or fix parts or divifions, even 
to the bottom, and jagged alfo on the edges, fet upon 
very long flender Footftalks, very like to the Leaves 
of the Field Crowfoot : from among which Leaves 
divers Stalks fpring up with great Joints, fomewhat 
reddifh, fet with Leaves like to the firft Garden 
kind : The Stalks towards their Tops fpread them- 
felves into many Branches, on which grow feveral 
Flowers, made of five Leaves apiece, as large as any 
of the Field Crowfoot, round pointed, and of a fair 
Blew, or Watchet color, which being paft, fuch like 
heads and bills do fucceed, as are found, in other 
Cranes-bills. 
IV. The fecond, or White Flowered Crowfoot 
Cranes-bill, is in Leaves, Stalks, Branches, Flowers, 
Magnitude, Form , and manner of growing, altogether 
like 
