94 6 Of the Hirtorie of Plants. L i b. z. 
grow and ftand vntill the next day, will beamurry colour; and if they Hand vnto the third day, they 
will tnrne intoadeep purple tending to blewnelfe; their changing is fuel:, thatyou (hall findcac 
one timevpon one branch floures like in forme, but of diners colours. The root is thicke,and of a 
wooddie fubftance. 3 
3 This wildekinde of masked Cranes bill, being altogether without fauour or fmell, is called 
Myrhida imderumpx G cranium arvenfe /War»w, which hath many leaues fpred flat vpon the around 
euery leafe made of d iuers fmaller leafes,and thofe cut or iagged aboftt the edges,of no find at all • 
amongft which rife vp flender branches , whereon doe grow fmall floures of a light purple colour:' 
the root is longand fibrous. 
4 This is alfoone of thewilde kindes of Cranes-bills, agreeing with the laft deferibed in each 
refped, except the floures, for as the other hath purple floures, fo this plant bringeth forth white 
floureSjOther difference there is none at all. 
5 The Cranes-bill with violet coloured floures, hath a thicke wooddie root, with tome few 
firings annexed thereto : from which rife immediatly forth of the ground diuers ftitfe ftalks which 
dmide themfelues into other fmall branches, whereupon are fee confufedly broad leaues made of 
three leaues apiece, and thofe iagged or cut about the edges : the floures grow at the top of the 
branches ofaperfeft Violet colour, whereof it tooke his name: after which come fuel: beakes or 
bils as the other of his kinde. 
$ The figure that was put vnto this Defcription is the fame with Geranium Rotertianum and 
therefore I thought it not much amilfe to put it hereagaine. $ 
6 I haue likewife another fort that was fent me from Robinus of Paris, whofe figure was neuer 
fet forth, neither deferibed ofany : it bringeth from a thicke tough root , with many branches of a 
brownifh colour:wherupon do grow leaues not vnlike to thofe of Gratia Dei, but not fo deeply cut 
fomewhat cornered,and of a fhining greene colour : the floures grow at the top of the tender bran? 
ches,compofed of fixe fmall leaues, ofa bright fcarlet colour. 
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/ " The Place. 
the third and fourth of thefe Cranes, bills growe of themfelues about old Walls, and a- 
bout the borders of fields, Woods and copfesj and moftofthe reft wee haue growing in ourear- 
dens. D D ® 
«|f The Time. 
Thefr time of flouring and feeding anfwereth the reft of the Cranes bills. 
T he Names. 
a further confideration ferue for cIleir names > referring what might haue been faid more to 
«J T he nature and Vert tits . 
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Therehath not as yetany thing beene found either of their temperature or faculties, but may 
De referred vnto the other of their kinde. 
t C h a p. 363. Of certaine other Qranes -bills . 
% The Defection. 
t i 'THiswhich Clufms receiuedfrom Dofiour <1 homos Pemiie of London, and fits forth 
X ^ as y 0L1 it here expreft 3 hath a root confiding offundry long 
- „ , , , and fma " bulbes, and which is fibrous towards the top : the ftalke is a cubit high, 
loynted, and red neere vnto the roote, and about the ioints : out of each of thefe ioyntes 
come two leaues which are faftened vnto fomewhat long foot-ftalkes , and diuided into flue 
parts, which alfo are fmpt about tbeedges : out of each ofwhi.ch ioints by the fetting on the 
foot-ftalkes 
