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The Theater of 'Plants « 
Chap.1o& 705 
5. ( e amum Mo/coviticum purpurcata, 
Pu pic CiJtocs bill of Mujcovy . 
6. Geranium Batracboides aliaum longim tradicatum Lobelij, 
Long rooted Cvowiooi Cranes bill. 
footeand ahalfchigh, branched into divers parts, with lefier divided leaves at the jointsup to the’foppe* 7 
where the flowers Hand very like unto the other, butleffer, and of a reddifh purple colour: the feede that foil* 
loweth is like the other, but ftandeth upright and turnethnot downewards: therootc is fome what thickeand 
reddifh at the head with divers firings and fibres thereat. 
5. Geranium Mofrovincum purptsreum. Purple Cranes bill of Mttfcevy. 
This purple Cranes bill hath broad leaves divided into five parts or divifions for the rood part.and dent-d like-' 
wife about the edges, fomewhar refembling Geranium fufeum ,but not fully fo large, or rather like the Geranium 
and with fome blacke fpots alio like them at the bonome of 
the divifions of the leafe, the (falkerifeth about two foote high, with lundry tufts of large purplifli blew flow¬ 
ers tending to red, the leede that folio weth is ahnoft as (mail astliat of the Roman ftriped kiiide: the roote fhoct- 
eth forth divers heads whereby it is increafed, but loofeth all his leaves in winter which the others doe not. ' 
6 . Geranium Batracboides alterum longius radicalism Uobc'.ij. Long rooted Crowfoot Cranes bill. 
The leaves of this Cranes bill are fomewhat large but yet lefle then the other Batracboides elfe very like.amonc' 
which rife fundry ffalkes bearing faire and beautiful! red flowers of a more excellentred colour then thofe of the 
bulbed Cranes bill, /mefling very fweet like Muske, and feede fiicceeding like the other ithe roote is very 
kmgandgreat.withfmallfibresthereat. \ 
7. Geraniumjiarvum Salinanticenfe. Small Sp.iniJb'Cnexts bill. 
’ 1 (mall Cranes bill hath leaves like the ordinary Crowfoot,and fniall purple flowers, with great heads like 
the t, mdj Cranes bill,and a fmall fibrous roote. 
The Place. 
T^e firfl as Clufius faith grew in Denmark, in the countrey of Hafina • the naturall place of the fecond is not 
ex P rt ” 1 ™ as Cl n fi u ’ f alt ^ groweth in fome parts of Hungary the fourth in other places of Germany - 
the lift in GMufcop -brought to usby Mr. bhn Tradefcant -. the lT*t oil .Mount Baidu,., and the laft on the ftony 
/a nd barren hills of Salamanca m Sfame, Vv.> — ' 
The Time . 
They all flower in Unc and Inly ,and their feede is ripe quickly after*, 
, _ ... , The NamfiU 
The Greekes call it reatmq^smwm, and fo doe the Latimfatfo,but to expreffe it the more plainely Gruinalis, 
bRoJlrum grui, otg « rmm gcReflrum (utoma from the forme of the feedes like a Storke or Cranes bill : the Itali¬ 
ans call itGiramo and Bjflro d, grtte, the Spaniards Pica ds &g*ma, the French bee de-drogue, the Germanee 
SsonknfchnaM, the Dutch Os/enatrv beck., and we in Englijh Storkes bill or Cranes bill. The fuff is Cfe/m his 
fourth Geranium, which he caleth Gcranmm bsslbofum Pennai, and Bauhinm Geraniam orumofa radlie : the fe- 
V s . G "T Am »°*>w,and tuberiferum TPlateau alfo, forthey are both but one plant, as he (beweth 
f “^.andfthmkds very like, ifnot the fame with the Germutm Romarmm verficolor five flriatnm, which is 
et forth in my former booke; the third Clufius calleth Geranium pttlleflore, which it is likely Gefner in Aftentice 
\ maketh 
