The Tra£iical Kitchen Gardiner, 



ajid many of the antients held in great 

 efteem, tho' they are now in a great 

 meafure difufed, as not being fo galate- 

 able as the other kinds are. 



Thofe that are skiil'd in botany af- 

 firm, the mallow malva has its appella- 

 tion from its emollient virtue in loofning 

 the ventricle;, and the like. Owx. Herbals 

 have given us the figures and definitions 

 of feveral kinds, or rather fpecies, couch- 

 ing alfo the hollyhock or garden mal- 

 lows under that denomxination ; but the 

 kinds more properly belonging to this 

 clafs, are the malva fylv. vulgaris flore 

 purpureO: common mallows with purple 

 flowers 5 and the malva vulgaris fore 

 albo, white mallows. 



The currd fort, Mr. Evelyn fays, is 

 the beft, being very friendly and emol- 

 lient to the ventricle, and fo rather me- 

 dicinal, yet may the tops, well boil'd, 

 be admitted 5 and the reft (tho' out of 

 ufe at prefent) was taken by the poets 

 for all fallets in general. Tythagoras 

 held them the malv^ folium fan^ijfmum^ 

 (as the learned author beforementiond 

 has it ;) and we find (fays he) EpimenideSy 

 in TlatOy at his mallows and afphodels ; 

 and indeed it was of old the firft difli 



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