| 1 | Hepatica flore albo amplo simplici. The large white Hepatica. |
| 2 | Hepatica flore rubro simplici. The red Hepatica. |
| 3 | Hepatica flore purpureo pleno. The double purple Hepatica. |
| 4 | Geranium tuberosum. Knobbed Cranes bill. |
| 5 | Geranium Batrachoides flore albo vel cæruleo. The blew or white Crowfoote Cranes bill. |
| 6 | Geranium Hematodes. The red Rose Cranes bill. |
| 7 | Geranium Romanum striatum. The variable stript Cranes bill. |
| 8 | Geranium Creticum. Candy Cranes bill. |
Chap. XXX.
Geranium. Storkes bill or Cranes bill.
As was said before concerning the Crowfeet, of their large extent and restraint, the like may be said of the Storkes bils or Cranes bils; for euen of these as of them, I must for this worke set forth the descriptions but of a few, and leaue the rest to a generall worke.
1. Geranium tuberosum vel bulbosum. Bulbous or knobbed Cranes bill.
The knobbed Cranes hath three or foure large leaues spread vpon the ground, of a grayish or rather dusty greene colour, euery one of them being as it were of a round forme, but diuided or cut into six or seuen long parts or diuisions, euen vnto the middle, which maketh it seeme to be so many leaues, each of the cuts or diuisions being deeply notched or indented on both sides; among which riseth vp a stalke a foote high or better, bearing thereon diuers pale but bright purple flowers, made of fiue leaues a peece, after which come small heads with long pointed beakes, resembling the long bill of a Storke or Crane, or such like bird, which after it is ripe, parteth at the bottome where it is biggest, into foure or fiue seedes, euery one whereof hath a peece of the beake head fastened vnto it, and falleth away if it bee not gathered: the roote is tuberous and round, like vnto the roote of the Cyclamen or ordinary Sowbread almost, but smaller, and of a darke russet colour on the outside, and white within, which doth encrease vnder ground, by certaine strings running from the mother root into small round bulbes, like vnto the rootes of the earth Chesnut, and will presently shoote leaues, and quickly grow to beare flowers, but will not abide to be kept long dry out of the ground, without danger to be vtterly spoiled.
2. Geranium Batrachoides flore cæruleo. The blew Crowfoote Cranes bill.
This Crowfoote Cranes bill hath many large leaues, cut into fiue or fix parts or diuisions, euen to the bottome, and iagged besides on the edges, set vpon very long slender foote-stalkes, very like the leaues of the wilde Crowfoot; from among which rise vp diuers stalkes with great ioynts, somewhat reddish, set with leaues like the former: the toppes of the stalkes are spread into many branches, whereon stand diuers flowers, made of fiue leaues a peece, as large as any of the wilde or field Crowfeete, round pointed, of a faire blew or watchet colour, which being past, there doe arise such heads or bils, as other of the Cranes bils haue: the roote is composed of many reddish strings, spreading in the ground, from a head made of diuers red heads, which lye oftentimes eminent aboue the ground.