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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Li b.2. 
Chap. 358. Of knobbed Qr anes 'bill . 
Geranium tuberofum. 
Knobbie Cranes-bill, The Defcription. 
'T'His kindcof Cranes-bill hath many flexi- 
ble branches, weake and tender, fat, and full 
ofmoifture,wheron arc placed very great leaues 
cut into diuers fmall fections or diuifions , re- 
fembling the leaues of the tuberous Anemone^ or 
Wind-fioure,buc fomewhat greater, ofanouer- 
worn greenifh colounamong which come forth 
long foot-ftalks,whereon do grow faire flourcs, 
of a bright purple colour,and like vnto the fmal- 
left brier Rofe in forme: which being paffthere 
fucceed fuch heads and beaks as the reft of the 
Cranes-bill haue : the root is thick, bumped or 
knobbed, which we call tuberous, 
f The Place. 
This kinde of Cranes-bill is a ftranger in 
England,notwithftanding I haue it growing in 
my garden. 
The Time. 
The time anfwereth the reft of the Cranes- 
bills. 
^he Names. 
Cranes bill is called in Greeker.p.w in La- 
tme,Gruinalis, commonly Rofirum Gruis, or Ro- 
Jtrum Ciconu • of the likenefle of a Cranes-bill, 
orltorkes-bill :of fome, e^icus mofeata-. but that " 
name doth rather belong toanotherofthis kind: . 
I - it IS al(° called A cm Pafloris : in Italian , Roftro 
CO di Ciqtttna,pico delgrou : in High Dutch , ’ ren ^h Be cdeGr H e in Spanifh,P/- 
in Englifh,Storks-bill, Cranes- bill, HeroM - ‘ "u" ow . D 11 v ^DttCU °C b«Cfc J 
(ftions fake, Geranium tuberofum. and Geranium bulLr • ^e-needle : t ' 1IS ls al ^° called for diftin- 
6r Diofcondes his firft Cranes-bill. ™ ' 11 1S bkewife Geranium primum Diofcondis 
The roots of this Cranes-bill haue a little Sd^oTheTtTn them . 
A wafte m7co^ a dram vvei S ht of them d™‘ik in wine doth 
* b for fuchas after weakneife crane to 
C The fame Authoraffirmeth that the weight of a dram of, > . , 
1S excellent good againft the Ptificke, or confumptton of [he' lungs/" ^ tlmeS 10 3 
C 
hap. 3551. Of c 5 \fmked Qranei-bilL 
H The Defcription. 
