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CHAP. CCCLXIX. 
O/HOLLIHOCK, 
0 R, 
TREE MALLOW. 
I.'T' if E Names. It is called, in Greek 
X rcCyjt in Latine Malva Arbor eu, Malva Ro- 
fea , Malva Hortenfis , Malva major , in E/iglifh tick 
lihock , or Garden Mallow , alfo Mallow this 
is the waV'gt'Tzii', Mofceuton Flint j Lib. 21. Cap. 4. fo 
called I fuppofe fuavitate odor is, or from 
quod avulfis furcults plantetur. 
II. The Kinds. There are two principal Kinds 
hereof, viz. 1. y.oiG, Malv a Hortenfis 
vulgaris , The Common Hollihock. 2. AzvJ'es^ra.- 
Malva Rofea magna , Malva Rofea Arbo- 
rea , The Great or Tree Hollihock. 
III. Of the Common Garden Kind there are two 
Species, viz. 1 . Malva Hortenfis vulgaris ftmplex , 
Malva Rofea Hortenfis [implex , Single Flowered 
Hollihock. 2. Malva Hortenfis vulgaris multiplex , 
Malva Rofea communis multiplex , The Double Flow* 
ered Hollihock. Of the Great or Tree Hollihock 
there are likewife two Species, viz. 3. Malva Ar- 
borea , Malva Rofea magna Arbor ea, Malva Arbor e a 
magna peregrina , The Outlandifh T;ee Hollihock. 
4. Malva Arborea Marina noftrnt , Malva Rofea 
Arborea Marina noftrad, Our Englifh Sea Tree Hol- 
lihock. 
. IV. The Defcriptions. The fir ft, or Common fin- 
gle Flowered Hollihock. It has a long , white , tough 
Root , eafily bowed , and grows deep into the Ground , 
not much unlike to the Root of the Common Mallow, 
but greater , and generally abides all the Winter , fi- 
fing up again the next Spring-, the Stalk grows up 
ftraight, almoft like a Tree, of five, fix, leven, or 
eight Feet high, according as the Ground is in good- 
nefs, the lower Leaves growing upon wincri -are al- 
moft: round, and fomewliat large, with many coiners, 
but not cur in or divided, and loft in handling,- utK 
thole which grow up higher are much more produ- 
ced into corners y from the middle of this Stalk up- 
wards to the- top grow the Flowers upon (Sender 
Footlblks, where they Hand and make as it \\Lrc. a 
long Spike of 1 fm:-ill Leaves 1 and Buds rbr '’Flowers 
together; the Blowers are fingle, and confift pf r five 
broad and round Leaves, Handing round, Jikp uii to 
fingle Roles , with a middle- long Stile, 'and;forne 
Chives about them'; thefe Flowers are of dtvers~Cb- 
lors, as pure White, or Redd fib, feme are of a pale 
Blufh, almoft like a White, fome are more! ■ blufh , 
frelh and lively, of a Rofe Color, fome are ’Scarier, 
and of a deeper Red, like Crimfon, fome of a dark 
Red, like black Blood, fome of a deep Purple, va- 
rying in their Colors, as Nature is pleafed to play 
with them •, after the Flowers are -paft, there grows 
up round Knobs or Heads, but flattifh withal, being 
round about the bottoms, and compaH or made up 
with a multitude of round , flat , whitifh Seed , in 
form of a Cheefe. 
V. The fecond , or Double Flowered Hollihock , 
in its Roots, Stales, Leaves j magnitude, manner and 
form of growing, and Seed, is exaffly like the former, 
fo that thofe parts need no other defeription than what 
we have already juft now given, the; difference 
between the former and this is only in the Flower, 
for whereas the former ate fingle , thefe are mani- 
foldly double, and are like unto double Rofes, let 
very thick with Leaves, fo that no Stile qr Joinrel 
is been in the middle, the outu ardmoft row ofl eaves 
in the Flowers are largeft, the innerraoft being finai- 
ler, and thick fe.t together, the Colors of win gh are 
manifold and various, according as we have aeidri bed 
them in the former SeHion. 
VI. The third, or Outlandifh Tree Flollihock. It 
hue a pretty large long Root, with fome Fibres adjoin- 
ing to it, which , tho ’ the Stalk perifhes every Tear, 
yet endures with us for about two Winters, and then 
decays : This Tree Hollihock grows with us to be a 
great tall Tree, more likely than an Herb, having its 
Stalk or Body fomething woody, and oftentimes fo 
great in compafs, that no Man can grafp it round 
with both his Hands * the Leaves are twice as large 
as any Common Mallow , and as foft and woolly in 
handling as the Marjh Mallow, but not fo white and 
downy, and many times crumpled about the edges ; 
it Flowers not in the firft Year of its fpringing up 
with us, but in the fecond Summer, if a preceeding 
fharp Winter has not killed its Stalk in the firft Year, 
(not then being grown to its full ftrength) being’then 
more tender than afterwards ; this main Stalk lpreads 
it felf out into feveral Branches , with Leaves on 
them, but fmaller, among which ftand fair, great, 
and large deep purple Flowers , with Stripes and 
Veinp in them , like to the Common Mallow ,■ after 
which come forth fuch like round Cafes, with black- 
fill Seed in them , but larger, according to the pro- 
portion of the Plant, which feldom comes to matu- 
rity in our Country. 
VII. The fourth, or Englifh Sea Tree Hollihock. 
It has a Root which is white, great, and woody , with 
many long fibres or Strings adjoined to it, and in its 
Stem, Leaves, and manner of growing, is very like 
to the laft deferibed ; its Stalk is woody , and as 
great as a Mans Arm , of a rutfet or hoary Color , 
upon which grow foft, whitifh, woolly Leaves, al- 
moft as large as the other, and as foft and imooth 
as Velvet; the Flowers hereof are large, and of a 
whitifh or diluted purple color, like in form to the 
Flower of a Wild Mallow, but much larger, yet not 
fo large as the, laft. 
VIII. The 
