368 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



Mallow, and of the fame deepe colour with it, fo that you can hardly know it from 

 the ordinary kinde, which is found growing wilde together with it, but onely by 

 the leafe, which is as round and as large as the former, but cut into many fine diui- 

 fions, euen to the ftalke that vpholdetb it, that it feemeth to confift onely of ragges, 

 or peeces of leaues : Of this kinde I take a plante for this garden, growing in all 

 refpefts like vnto it, but differing onely in the colour of the flowers, which are of the 

 fame blufh or light carnation colour, or not much differing from the former Spanifh 

 kinde, with fome veines therein of a deeper colour : the root hereof liueth, as the root 

 of the common wilde kinde doth. 



3. Alcea peregrina fiue vejicaria. 

 Venice Mallow, or Good night at noone. 



The Venice Mallow hath long and weake ftalkes, moft vfually lying or leaning 

 vpon the ground, hauing here and there vpon them long leaues and fomewhat broad, 

 cut in or gafhed very deepely on both edges, that it feemeth as if they were diuers 

 leaues fet together, euery one (landing on a long footeftalke : at the ioynts of thefe 

 ftalkes, where the leaues are fet, come forth feuerall flowers, ftanding vpon long foot- 

 ftalkes, which are fomewhat larger then any of the former flowers, confifting of fiue 

 leaues, fmall at the bottome, and wide at the brimmes, of a whitifh colour tending to 

 a blufh, and fometimes all white, with fpots at the bottomes of the leaues on the infide, 

 of a very deepe purple or murrey colour, which addeth a great grace to the flower, 

 and hauing alfo a long peftle or clapper in the middle, as yellow as gold : thefe flowers 

 are fo quickly faded and gone, that you fhall hardly fee any of them blowne open, 

 vnlefle it bee betimes in the morning before the Sunne doe grow warme vpon them, 

 for as foone as it feeleth the Sunnes warme heate, it clofeth vp and neuer openeth a- 

 gaine, fo that you fhall very feldome fee a flower blowne open in the day time, after 

 nine a clocke in the morning : after thefe flowers are part, there rife vp in their places 

 thinne, round, mining or tranfparent bladders, pointed at the toppe, and ribbed down 

 all along, wherein are contained fmall, round, blackifh feede : the roote is long and 

 fmall, and perifheth euery yeare. 



4. Alcea fruticofa pentaphy llea. Cinquefoile Mallow. 



The ftalkes of this Mallow are very long, hard or wooddy, more then of any of 

 the other Mallowes : at the lower part whereof, and vp to the middle, ftand diuers 

 leaues vpon long footeftalkes, parted or diuided into fiue parts or leaues, and dented 

 about the edges ; but vpwards from the middle to the toppe, the leaues haue but three 

 diuifions : among thefe leaues ftand large wide open flowers, of the colour of the 

 common Mallow : the feede is fmaller then in any other Mallow, but the rootes are 

 great and long, fpreading in the ground like vnto the rootes of Marfh Mallowes, and 

 fpringeth vp afrefh euery yeare from the roote. 



5. Sabdarifa feu Alcea Americana. Thorney Mallowe. 



This Thorney Mallowe hath greene leaues next vnto the ground, that are almoft 

 round, but pointed at the end, and dented very much about the edges ; the other leaues 

 that growe vpon the ftalke are diuided into three parts, like vnto a trefoile, and fome 

 of them into fiue diuifions, all of them dented about the edges : the ftalke is reddilh, 

 with fome harmelefTe prickles in fundry places thereon, and rifeth vp three or foure 

 foote high in a good ground, a fit place, and a kindly yeare, bearing plenty of flowers 

 vpon the ftalkes, one at the foote of euery leafe, the toppe it felfe ending in a long 

 fpike, as it were of buddes and leaues together : the flowers nre of a very pale yellow, 

 tending to a white colour, fpotted in the bottome of each of the fiue leaues, with a 

 deepe purple fpot, broad at the lower part, and ending in a point about the middle of 

 the leafe, which are quickly fading, and not abiding aboue one day, with a long peftle 

 in the middle diuided at the toppe : after the flower is paft, commeth vp a fhort prickly 

 podde, fet within a fmall greene huske or cup that bore the flower, wherein is contai- 

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