366 The Garden of p leaf ant F lowers. 



The Place. 



Thefe plants grow naturally in the Weft Indies, where there is a perpe- 

 tuall fummer, or at the leaft no cold frofty winters, from whence the feede 

 hath been fent into thefe parts of Europe, and are difperfed into euery 

 garden almoft of note. 



The Time. 



Thefe plants flower from the end of luly fometimes, or Auguft, vntill 

 the frofts, and cold ayres of the euenings in October, pull them down, and 

 in the meane time the feed is ripe. 



The Names. 



Wee haue not receiued the feedes of this plant vnder any other name, 

 then Mlrabilia Peruviana, or Admirabilis planta. In Englifh wee call them, 

 The meruaile of Peru, or the meruaile of the world: yet fome Authors 

 haue called it Gelfeminum, or lafminum rubrum, & Indicum : and Bauhinus 

 Solatium Mexicanum flore magno. 



The Vertues. 

 We haue not knowne any vfe hereof in Phyficke. 



CHAP. XCI. 

 Malua. Mallowes. 



OF the kindred of Mallowes there are a great number, fome of the gardens, o- 

 thers wilde, fome with fingle flowers, others with double, fome with whole 

 leaues, others with cut or diuided : to entreate of them all is not my purpofe, 

 nor the fcope of this worke, but onely of fuch whole flowers, hauing beautie and re- 

 fpe6l, are fit to furnifh this garden, as ornaments thereunto. And firft of thofe lingle 

 kindes, whofe flowers come neereft vnto the fafhion of the former Bell-flowers, and 

 after to the double ones, which for their brauery, are entertained euery where into e- 

 uery Countrey womans garden. 



i. Malua Hifpanica Jiore carneo amplo. 

 The Spanifh blufh Mallow. 



The Spanifh Mallow is in forme and manner of growing, very like vnto our com- 

 mon fielde Mallow, hauing vpright ftalkes two or three foote high, fpread into diuers 

 branches, and from the bottome to the toppe, befet with round leaues, like vnto our 

 Mallowes, but fome what f mailer, rounder, and lefle diuided, yet larger below then 

 aboue : the flowers are plentifully growing vpon the fmall branches, folding or wri- 

 thing their leaues one about another before they bee blowne, and being open confift 

 of fiue leaues, with a long forked clapper therein, of the fame colour with the flower : 

 the chiefeft difference from the common confifteth in this, that the leaues of thefe 

 flowers are longer, and more wide open at the brimmes (almoft like a Bell flower) 

 and of a faire blufh or light carnation colour, doling at night, and opening all the 

 day : after the flowers are paft, there come fuch like round heads, with fmall blacke 

 feede, like vnto the common kinde, but fomewhat fmaller : the roote is fmall and long, 

 and perifheth euery yeare. 



2. Alcea vulgaris fore carneo. Vervaine Mallow with blufh flowers. 



There is a Mallow that hath long ftalkes, and flowers like vnto the common wilde 



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