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like to the former, excepting in two particulars, viz. 
1. In the Root , which has not fitch red heads as the 
farmer Blew Flowered has. 1. In the Flowers, the 
former being Blew, whereas the Flowers in this are 
wholly White, and. fully as large as the firft. 
V. The third, or Purple Crowfoot Cranes-bill, 
has a Root which is compofed of a great Tuft oj 
firings, fafinei to a Tuberous or Knobby Head, from 
whence many Leaves fpring forth , fet upon long 
Footftalks , Jbmewbat like unto the other , yet not fo 
broad, but more divided or cut, viz. into /even, or 
more flits , even to the middle, each of which is alfo 
cut in on the edges, more deeply than the former. 
The Stalks are a little Knobbed or Gouty at the 
Joints, fet ' with Leaves like unto the lower, and 
bearing a great Tuft of Buis at the Tops of the 
Branches, which bud and put out into fair large 
Flowers , made of five purple Leaves, which do fotne- 
thing refemble the Flower of a Mallow, before it 
be too full blown , each whereof has a reddijh Fointel 
in the middle, and many fmall threads compaffing of 
it ( ten in number ) as Gerard fays. This \Jmble or 
Tuft of Buds, does Flower by Degrees, and not all 
at once, and every Flower abides open but a little 
more than one day, and then Jheds its Leaves ; fo 
that every day yields frejh Flowers, which becaufe 
they are fo many, are a long time before they are all 
blown and fpent. The Flowers being paft, fmall 
Beak or Bill Heads come forth, like unto the other 
Cranes-bills, with fmall turning Seed. 
VI. The fourth, or Dark Red Crowfoot Cranes- 
bill has a Root with great reddijh heads above, with 
many long firings and fibres defeending from it ; 
from this Root fpring fever al broad fpread, foft, and 
fomewhat hairy Leaves, growing upon long Footftalks , 
cut into five, fix, or feven deep gajhes or divifions , 
with a blackijh fpot at the bottom of even one of 
them and dented alfo about their edges. The Stalk 
rifes up about two Feet high, fpotted with many 
bloody Spots , and is firong , fomewhat hairy, and 
fpread forth into three or four Branches, with fuch 
like Leaves on them, but leffer , and at their Tops , 
two or three Flowers apiece, each of them confifting 
of five Le ernes, cut in on the edges ( which is a 
mode differing from all other Cranes-bills ) of a deep 
red color, almofi blackijh, and in the middle a long 
Stile or Fointel, with many withered threads about 
it. The Flowers being paft, there follows broum 
pointed Seed, like to the other Cranes-bills. 
VII. The fifth, or Party-colored Crowfoot Cranes- 
bill, is in its Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Flowers, Seed, 
Magnitude, Form and manner of growing, fo like 
to the firft deferibed in this Chapter , that until it 
is pcrfetlly in Flower, this cannot be known from 
that : but when it is blown out, the Flowers are 
found to be variably ft ripe d and fpotted, and fome- 
times divided, the one half of every Leaf being 
white and the other half blew ; fometimes with 
greater or leffer fpots of blew in the white Leaf, 
very variable , and more in fome years than in 
others ; fo that it would be a very difficult matter 
to exprefs all the varieties which may be obferved , 
at the fame and differing times, in the blown Flow- 
ers. 
VIII. The fixth , or Long Rooted Crowfoot 
Cranes-bill, has a Root very long and great, with 
fmall fibres adjoining thereto, of a reddijh color with- 
out, and abiding all the Winter : from this Root 
fpring forth Leaves ( upon long Footftalks ) fome- 
what large, but yet lefs than thofe of the other 
Crowfoot Cranes-bills, otherwife very like. From 
among thefe Leaves rife up feveral Stalks , bearing 
fair and beautiful red Flowers , of a more excellent 
red color than thofe of the Tuberous Cranes-bill, 
and of a lighter red than thofe of the third kind be- 
fore dejertbed in this Chapter : they are a jo con 
tamed in thicker and Jhorler Cups, and are of a 
fweet Musk-like Smell : The Flowers being paft, ihe 
Seed ftccce is, which is like to that of the other 
Cranes-bills, ftving that the Bills are a little Jbor- 
ter. 
IX. The Places. Thefe are all Wild of their 
own Nature, and grow in Barren Places, and in 
Vallies, rather than in Mountainous Grounds. Some 
fay, that the firll has been found growing naturally 
in England, but Tarkitjon lays, he never could find 
it : but with us they ate for the molt part Nurs’d up 
in Gardens. 
X. The Times. They all Flower ill June and 
July , and their Seed is ripe in a Ihort time after- 
wards. 
XI. The Qualifies, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues , being the fame with all the aforegoing 
Cranes-bills, as alfo with thofe in the following 
Chapter, where we have declared them ar large, 
we fhall forbear to fpeak any more in this place, 
referring you thither. 
CHAP. CLXII. 
Of CRANES-BILL Field. 
I. / TP H E Names. It is called in Greek , isgsW 
A ay ex©- • In Latm^ Geranium agrejie : and 
in Englifh , f ield Cranes-bill . 
II. The Kinds. The Held Cranes-bill is manifold, 
but thofe which we defign under that Name, are, 
1. Geranium agrejle , Geranium Viol ace inn , Field, 
or Violet colored Cranes-bill. 2. Geranium Qicut.e 
folio inodorum , Field Cranes-bill without Smell ^ 
of this we have difeourfed in Chap. 160. Se£h 4. 
3. Geranium Columbimm , Doves* foot. 4. Gera- 
nium Robertianum , Herb Robert ^ of which two laid 
we (hall fpeak in fome of the Chapters following. 
Ill The 
