92-8 Of the Hfftorie of Plants. L i b. 2 . 
The Temperature and Vert tics. 
A The temperature and vertues be referred vnto the common Potatoes, being likewife a food, as 
alfo a meate for pleafure, equall in goodneife and wholefomenefle vnto the fame, being either ra- 
fted in theembers, or boy led and eaten with oy le, vineger, and pepper, or drafted any other way by 
the hand of fome cunning in cookerie. 
B f Bauhine faith, That he heard that the vfe of thefe toots wasforbidden in Bourgondy (where 
they call them Indian Artichokes) for that they were perfuaded the too frequent vfe ofthem cau- 
fed the leprofie. $ 
Chap. 351* 1 
Of the (far den allow called Holliboclg. 
TheKindes. 
'T’ Here be diuers forts or kindesof Mallowes ; fome of the garden .-there be alfo fome of the 
Marifh 01 feafhore; others of the field, and both wilde. And firft of the Garden Mallow ot 
Hollihocke. 
I Mithtihoncnfis. 2 Malua rofen fimplexperegrwa. 
Single Garden Hollihocke. lagged ftrange Hollihocke, 
•} The Description. 
1 r T * 1 He tame or garden Mallow bringeth forth broad round leaues of a whitifh greene co- 
J[ lour, rough, and greater than thofe of the wilde Mallow. The ftalke is ftraight,ofthe 
height of foure or fix cubits ; whereon do grow vpon (lender foot-ftalks fingle floures 
not much vnlike to the wilde Mallow, but greater, confifting only of fine leaues, fometimes white 
or red, now and then ofadeepe purple colour, varying diuerfly,as Nature lift to play with it : in 
their places groweth vp a round knop like a little cake, compact or made vp of a multitude of fiat 
feeds like little cheefes. The root is long, white, tough, eafily bowed, and groweth deepe in the 
ground. 
2 The 
