They haue obtained diuers names; some calling them _Hepatica_, _Hepatica nobilis_, _Hepaticum trifolium_, _Trifolium nobile_, _Trifolium aureum_, and some _Trinitas_, and _Herba Trinitatis_. In English you may call them either Hepatica, after the Latine name, as most doe, or Noble Liuerwort, which you please. The Vertues. These are thought to coole and strengthen the liuer, the name importing as much; but I neuer saw any great vse of them by any the Physitians of our London Colledge, or effect by them that haue vsed them in Physicke in our Country. [Illustration: 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.