944 Of f h e Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
fettionsorcuts: among which comeforth flowers compofed of flue lcauesapiece, of ablcwifh 
or watcher colour, in the middle part whereof come forth a few chines. and a fmall pointed! oft 
purplifh colour: the head and beake is like to the reft of theCranes bills, but greater: the root die th 
when it hath perfected his feed. ' 1 
2 This Cranes-bill, being a baftard kinde of the former, hath long (lender branches grow 
,, »ng to the height of two or three cubits, fet about with very great leaues.not vnlike to thofe of Hof 
lihocks,but fomewhat leffer,ofan ouerworne greene colour.-among which rifevp little foot- (talks' 
on the ends whereof do grow (mail floures, lefter than thofe of the" precedent, andofa murrey co* 
lour : the head and feeds are like alfo, but much lefler : the roots doelikewifedieat the fir. ft nn 
proch of Winter. la P' 
The Place, 
Thefe are ftrangers in England, except in the gardens of fome Herbarifts : they grow in mv ear 
den very plentifully. 1 ° 
The T ime. 
The time anfwcreth the reft of the Craues-bils,yet doth that of Candic flourc for the molt nart 
with me in May. E 
The Names. 
There is not more to be faid of the names than hath been remembred in their feueral titles-A™ 
may be called in Engliih, Cranes-bils, or Storkes-bils. 1 
The Temperature. 
Their temperature anfwereth that of Doues-foot. 
*| TheVertues. 
A Their faculties in working areequall to thofe of Doues-foot, .and vfed for the fame purpofes 
(& rightly) fpecially beingvfed in wound drinks,for the which it doth far excel any of the Cranes 
bils,and is equall with any other herbe whatfoeuer for the fame purpofe. 
Chap, j 62 .. Of diners m/de Cranes-biUs . 
«[ The Kindcs, 
nP Here be diners forts or kindes of Cranes-bils which haue not been remembred of the antieno 
nor much fpoken ofby the later writers, all which I meane to comprehend vnder this chapter, 
makingas it were of them a Chapter of vvilde Cranes-bils, although fomeofthem haue place in 
our London gardens, and that worthily, efpecially for the beautie of the floures : their names lhail 
be exprefled in their feueral titles, their natures and faculties are referred to the ocher Cranes-bils 
or it you pleafe to a further confederation. 
The Defcription, 
1 C Potted Cranes -bi I l,or Srorkes-bill,the which Z^/defcribeth in the tide rtius fierani- 
07 Ffwpre uctdopmme & rnedto Canduame, whofe leaues are like vnto Crow- 
duft.ecolo? 0t if r doubt,c(re ° f Cr \ ne5 bill, called Gratia Dc) of an ouerworne 
a the Ins 0 T A ° ng fa “ 0l ' r ’ ye n n0t a,to f S et ^ r vnpleafanr : the ftalkes are drieand brittle, 
at the tops whereof doe grow pleafant floures of a darke purple colour , the middle part of them 
rnhreds 0 T1 lte " ’ : r T ^ tbeKOf ’ COm ™ eth » tuft of final? purplehai- 
nv of the faS r Ti ^ Very b T* « fclfc forth ofthc ground, infomuch that ma- 
ny ol the faid roots he aboue the ground naked without earth, euen as the roots of Flourc-dc-luces 
feruationsharh 1 haue anotbe ' fort *? m >' g arde "> »'hich Clu(lus in his Pannonicke Ob- 
0,. GruiZe i fangume Cranes bill: and Lobel, Geranium Gnmurn, 
vnto Dotes frntfn 7 K fl “ lbIe brancll « creeping vpon the ground: the leaues are much like 
vnto Doues foot in forme, but cut euen to the middle rib • the floures are like thofe of the fmall 
wilde mal low, and of the fame bignefTe,of a perfed bright red colour, which if they be fuffered to 
grew 
