Lib. l. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
. 93 1 
3 Mahta crifpa. 
The French curled Mallow. 
4 Maluanerbenaca. 
Veruaine Mallow. 
The Veruaine Mallow groweth not euerie 
Where : it growes on the ditch (ides on the left 
hand of the place of execution by L ondon,cal- 
led Tyborn : alfo in a field neere vnto a village 
fourteene miles from London called Bufhey, 
on thebacke-fide ofa Gentlemans houfe na- 
med M r . Robert Wylbraham: likewife amongft 
the bullies and hedges as you go from London 
to a bathing place called the Old Foord ; and 
in the bu flies as you go to Hackny a village by 
London, in the clofes nextthe towh,and in di- 
uers other places, as at Balftngburne in Hart- 
fordfhire, three miles from Roifton. 
t M '.Goodyer found the Veruain Mallow 
with white floures growing plentifully in a 
clofe neere Maple-durham in Hampshire, cal- 
led Aldercrofts. % 
The 'Time. 
Thefe wilde Mallovves do floure from Iune 
till Sommer be well fpc-nt : in the meane time 
their feed alfo waxeth ripe. 
% The Names. 
The wilde Mallow is called in Latine MaU 
nafjlueflris : in Greeke, or >#«<?«■• and 
iumt, as though they fhould fay a mitigatorof 
paine: of Tomcfifiriaca : inhigh-Dutch,^£lp3 
pcltti: in Low-Dutch, and LltcC- 
fcCUjS cruft : in Englifb, Mallow, 
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