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Show ae The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. ——<, ad ~ The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, firft opening, and will then in any other Cranesbillat the e dotharife fuch like ther , floweris paft ofa decpeithaferwards ie the , long,and thicke, hard is e root the : l {mal t e kinde,bu the outfide,and on ur beakes asarein others ofthe fam colo low yel ifh redd g from it, ofa e Cuar. XXXb ' Sanisulaguttata maior. Spotted Sanicle, h fome newgreene with diuers branches {preadin erifheth not, but fhooteth fort . whitith within, which abideth andp ough thofe that turne red doefall away alth leaues, which abide all the Winter, Geraniam Creticum. Candy Cranesbill, H Auing long debated with myfelfe,where to place this the otker plantsthat follow in thié cwo'next Chapters, I hauethoughtit not amiffe for this warke tofetthemn dewnehere , both before the Beares eares, whicharekindésof s., whereon growe diversbroad| ranesbill beareth lon andtender ftalke are branched | the edges : the roppesof the ftalkes ashetear inoriagged a a faire blew of leaues of a reafonable bigneffe 3 and into many flowers, made offiue Sanicle, ag thé beft Authors doc hold, and after the Cranesbils, both for forne quali ties (omiewhat refembling thent, and for fome affinity of the lowers with the former. The {potted Saniclehath many {mall round leaues, bluntly endented about the therefol. etlin themiddle, which being patt, or watchet colour, with a purplifh poingbut r, greater, and large ining conta er, great bils, s Crane edges, fomewhatlike vntotheleaues ofour white Saxifrage, ofa full greene colour aboue, and.whitifh hairy,’ atid fomewhat teddith withall vnderneath: the ftalkes aré low beake heads like other s skinne, if one be not warie of it ; the rootei fharper pointed feede, ableto pierce the feede, is tedh perfec hath it heth when white and long, with fomefibres atit, and perif ifthe Winter benottoofharpe,other and will{pring ofit owne fowing many times, . fet hereand there withthelike leaves’; rifing a foote anda halfe high or more, very mich diuided at the toppé intofuindty fmall branches, bearing manyvery {mall white flowers, confifting of fine{mall leaues, wherein are many {mall red pots to be feene, as finallas pitis points, ofa pretty fweere fent, almoft like Hawthorne flowers, in the g ofthe yeare wife (being annuall)it muft be fownc in the Sprin middle whereof are many {mall threads compaffing a head,which whenitis ripe con- taineth fmall blacke feede': the roote is {caly; or couered with a chaffie matter, hauing many{mall white fibres ynderneath, wherebyit is faftened inthe ground. The Place. ,but endenizond | Moft ofthefe Cranes bils are ftrangers vnto vs by nature fomeof good by mee vato ted repor in our Englith Gardens. It hath beene found naturally There is another of this kinde, like both in rote, leafe, and flower tothe former, Minor non guté the onely difrenceis, that chis is leffer then the former, and hath no {pots inthe“ hath been credit, that the fecond or Crowfoot Cranes bill I haue feen many forts | ugh altho it, {aw neucr I growing in England,but yet the firft groweth that faith of wilde kindes in many places. Matthiolus flower, as théotherhath. Daft hath moft of thereft grow in Germany , Bohemia, Auftria, &c. The | P ded in his title. white foweis {potted as the 'firft, but with fewer {pots. . Owe haue alfo another fmallerkindethen the laft,both in leafe and flowet,the leaties acinusgusteraj whereofare fmaller, butrounder , and more finely fnipt or indented aboutthe edges likethe teeth of a fine fawe: the ftalkeis little aboueafpanhigh, hauing many {mall us,and others,thit Dalmatia and Illyria very plentifully. Camerarius, Clufi his place recor The Place. The Time. Thefe growe in the thadowie Woodsofthe Alpes, in diuersplaces ; arid with vsthey more delight'in the fhadethenthefunne. Allthefe Cranes bils doe for themoft part flower in Aprill , and Ma) and vntillthemiddleoflune. The variable orftript Cranes billis viualy the lateft ofall the reft. The Names. The Timé: “All thefe Sanicles doe flowerin May, and continue flowringvntill Iune, atid the feede fooneripeneth after : the roores abide all the Winter, with foméleanes onthem,fpringing a freflrin the beginningofthe ycare. Thefirft is vfually called Geraminm tuberofum, offome Geraniam bullifut, of thelikeneffe ofthe roote vatoa bulbe: Itis without controuerfic 6%, | nium primum of Diofcoridess The fecondis called Gerasinms Gratis Dth® The Nameés. it Bae others , Geranium cerulewm, Theblew Cranesbill Lobel calleth and thea! cheides, becaufe bothleafeand flowerarc like vntoa Crowfoote; finity with the Cranes bils in the feede caufeth it rather to be referreat j them then tothe Crowfeete. Theftript Cranes billis called by fome Gt | ranium Romanum. Thelatt fauing one is called Geranium Hemsateatss “| The former twoare callédby Clufius Senitale montane, and by others ‘Saniculaguttate’s by Lobel Geams Alpinwm: Thethird or lat hath been fent vsvnder the ndinc ofSanicals mostana alters minor, Sanguinewm, of Lobel Geranium Gruinale Hematodes fupinum radice repem| The Vertuess In Englifhit maybe called after the Greek and Latine, The bloudy Crane att® bill,butI rathercall it, The Rofe Cranesbill, becaufe'the flowers largeasfingle Rofes, or asthe Rofe Campion. ‘Some of them are callea# manyplaces ofEngland Baffinets. | Phe namie inipofed on thefe plants déecertainly affurevs of their ver? cués, from the firft founders , that they are great healers, and fromithcix': tafte;that theyare great binders. | The Vertues. f , Alithekindes of Cranes bils are accounted great wound herbes,ande?| Fedtuallto ftay bleedings, yet fome more then others. The Emperickes Germanie, as Camerarius faith, extoll it wonderfully, for afingularte™ dic againft the Stone, bothin the reinesand bladder. cast Cuate |