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ned whitilh, or rather brownifh yellow feede, flat and Ibmcwhat round, like vnto the 

 icciles ol Hollyhuckc : the route is itringie, and quickly perilheth; tor it will hardly 

 endure in our cold Country to giue flowers, much lelle leedc, vnlefie (as I faid before) 

 it happen in a kindly yeare, and he well planted and tended. 



6. Biimiii J'fii AU\'n ft.gyptin. The Mallow of Egypt. 



This Mallow is alfo as tender to nourfe vp as the lall, hauing the lower leaues broad 

 like a Marlh Mallow, and of a frefh greene colour; but thofc that growe vpon the 

 Italkc, and vp to the toppe, arc diuided into fiue parts or points, but are not cut in to 

 the middle rihbe, like the former Thorney Mallow, yet dented about the edges like 

 vnto them : the flowers growe at the letting to of the leaues, like vnto a Mallow for 

 forme, but of a whitilh colour ; after which come long flue fquare pointed pods, with 

 hard ihcls, wherein are contained round blackifh gray feede, as bigge as a Vetch or 

 bigger : the roote perillieth quickly with vs, cuen with the firft frolls. 



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j. Althaa frutex Jkre albo ixl purpureo. 

 Shrubbe Mallow with a white or purple flower. 



There are diuers forts of fhrubbe Mallowes, whereof fome that haue their flemmes 

 or (hikes lefle wooddy, dye downe to the ground euery yeare, and others that abide 

 al waves, are more wooddy : Of the former forts I intend not to fpeake, referring them 

 to a fitter place; and of the other, I will onely giue you the knowledge of one or two 

 in this place, although I doe acknowledge their fitteft place had been to be among the 

 (hrubbes ; hut becaufe they are Mallowes, I pray let them pafle with the red of their 

 kindred, and their defcriptions in this manner: Thefe wooddy kindes of fhrub Mal- 

 lowes haue fomewhat large, long, and diuided leaues, of a whitifh greene colour, foft 

 alfo, and as it were woolly in handling, fet difperfedly on the whitifh hard or wooddy 

 (hikes : their flowers are large, like vnto a fingle Rofe or Hollyhocke, in the one being 

 white with purple fpots in the bottome; in the other either of a deepe red colour, or 

 elfe of a paler purple, with a deeper bottome, and with veines running in cuery leafe : 

 they arc fomewhat tender, and would not be fuffered to be vncouered in the Winter 

 time, or yet abroad in the Garden, but kept in a large pot or tubbe, in the houfe or in a 

 warme cellar, if you would haue them to thriue. 



8. Malua hortenjis rofea Jimplex & multiplex diuer forum color um. 

 Hollihockes fingle and double of feuerall colours. 



I lhall not neede to make many defcriptions of Hollihockes, in regard the greatefl 

 difference confilleth in the flowers, which are in fome fingle, in fome double, in fome 

 ot one colour, and in others of other colours : for the lowell leaues of Hollihockes are 

 all round, and fomewhat large, with many corners, but not cut in or diuided, foft in 

 handling; but thofe that growe vp higher are much more diuided into many corners : 

 the llalkcs fometimes growe like a tree, at the leall higher then any man, with diuers 

 fuch diuided leaues on them, and flowers from the middle to the toppe, where they 

 (land as it were a long fpike of leaues and buds for flowers together: the flowers arc of 

 diuers colours, both fingle and double, as pure white, and pale blulh, almofl like 

 a white, and more blufh, frefh and liuely, of a Rofe colour, Scarlet, and a deeper red 

 like a crimfon, and of a darke red like blacke bloud; thefe are the mofl efpeciall colours 

 both ot fingle and double flowers that I haue feene : the fingle flowers confifl of fiue 

 broad and round leaues, (landing round like vnto fingle Rofes, with a middle long 

 flile, and fome chiues aboue them : the double flowers are like vnto double Rofes, very 

 thicke, fo that no llile or vmbone is feene in the middle, and the outermofl rowe of 

 leaues in the flowers are largefl, the innermoll being fmaller and thicke fet together : 

 alter the flowers are pall, there come vp as well in the double as fingle, flat round 

 heads, like flat cakes, round about the bottomes whereof growe flat whitifh feede : the 

 rootc is long and great at the head, white and tough, like the roote of the common 

 Mallowes, but greater, and will reafonably well abide the Winter. 



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