FAMIdLY HERBAL. %IB 



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against sharp humours m the bowels, and for the 



There is a little kind of mallow, that has whitish 

 ilowers^ and lies flat upon the ground. This is of 

 a more pleasant taste than the common mallow. 



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Marsh Mallow. Altli^a 



A TALL wild plant, of the mallow kind/ frc' 

 quent with us about salt marshes^ and the sides of 

 rivers where the tides come. It grows to four feet 

 in height. The stalk is rounds upright, tiiick, and 

 somewhat hairy. The leaves are large, broad at the 

 base, small at the pointy of a figure approaching (o 

 triangnlar, and indented round the edges : they a're 

 of a whitish green colour^ and soft to the touch 

 like velvet. The flowers are large and white, with 

 sometimes a faint blush of reddish- They are of 

 the same size and shape with those of the common 

 mallow. 



The root is most used. It is white, long, and 

 thick, of an insipid taste, and full of a mucilaginous 

 juice. Boiled .in water, and the decoction made 

 strong, it is excellent to promote urine, and bring 

 away gravel, and «mall stones ; it also cures stran- 

 guries, and is good in coughs. Its virtues are the 

 Sartie with tho^e of the common mallow, but in a 

 greater degree. 



Vervain Mallow. Alcea. 



A VERY beautiful plant, both in its flower and 

 manner ofjirrowth; common in pastures, and worthy 

 to be cherished in our gardens. It grows two. fte( 



