Tribes. The Theater of Tlants. Chap. 6.6. 
in that all of them have in fome meafure dr other that clammie j'uyce that is in them. 
Chap. LXVI. 
Afelochia jive Corchorus . The Iewcs Mallow.’ 
He Ie wes M allow (for unto that family I referre it, bothforfome forme like thereunto, but mors 
for the properties) isafmall lowhearbe, riling upafoote and ahalfe high, from whofe (hikes 
flioote forth diverfe branches on all (ides, whereon grow many leaves without order, up to the 
toppes, which arc fomewhat longer and broader than the leaves of Baffill lome like wife (liorter and 
1 broader, almoft round, yet all of them pointed, and finely nicked about the edges, having at the bot- 
tome of each lcafc,a (mail thred as it were on each fide.which are of a little fowrifh tafte,the flowers come forth 
finely for the mod part, but one (landing at a place, every one upon a fhort foote ftalkjconfifting of $ broad lmall 
pomted leaves, of a yellow colour, with fome threds in the middle, which being pad, there rile up (lender long 
pods, fomewhat like unto thofe of Swallowwort, 
which when they are ripe, open into five partitions, 
fhewing within them fmall feede,fomewhat like unto 
Nigella, but lelfer, and of a bleiviffi greene colour: 
the roote is fomewhat long, with many threds or fibres 
thercar, which perifhech every yeare. 
The Place, 
Itgrowcth in eAjta, Syria, Egypt, and thofe places 
aboundantly, in the gardens where it is fowne, as alfo 
in many places of Spain? and Italy, but the naturall 
place is not knowne: It is lo familiar in Egypt, as 
Alpinus faith, that the feall or meales meate that is 
made without a difli thereof, being boyled in water or 
frefh broth, is not thought to be fufficient plenti¬ 
ful!. 
The Time, 
It feldome flowreth with us in regard that our Som ; 
mersarenothot enough to bring it to maturity, for 
having often fowen it, we could never have it grow 
above an hand high, the fird cold ayre in the night cau- 
fing it to perifh quickly. 
The Names', 
It is called of mod Uelochia ot Mo/ochia of Seraph; 
it is thought by Lebel to be the Corchorm or Corcorw 
of Plinje, whichhe mentioneth in his I S booke and 
52 chap, but not that whichhe fpeakethof inhis2j. 
booke and i; chap, which is that of T>iofcorides and 
Thropbraftw in his 7 booke and 7 chapter; for that is 
oenerally thought to be Atiagallis or Pimpernell, as you 
(hall heare when we come to it; Raitwoljhtt faith in his 
loarnaA that in Syria, Egypt, &c. they call it M olachi, 
and is that Oku Iniicum that Avicen fpeaketh of. 
Matthiolus thinketh that Halimus Sea Purdane is the 
Melochia of the Moores and Arabians, becaufe it was 
ufually eaten as a fallet herbe. 
The Vertues, 
It is as Alpimu faith in faculty very like unto the __ 
tnarfh Mallow, for it is much ufed to fuppurate, diged, refolve, and mollifieaU hard tumors in that the marc - 
la^e thereof is more flimie than chat of the marfh Mallow, a drammes of the feede he faith is ufuaily. taken at a 
time to purge plentifully all forts of humours: the deco&ion of the leaves is very familiarly u led againft dry 
couehep, hoarfeneffc of the throate and voyce, and fbortnefle of breath, and with fugar candy is a prefentreme- 
die? the oyle thereof -is ufed fo familiarly by the Egyptians in their meales as Alfmm faith, and that they iel- 
dome eate without it, notwithftanding that it breedeth many obftru£lions,and the vifeons nourilhment that it 
giveth, though little, turneth into melancholy and other difeafes. 
Vnto this Claffis alfo might be added diverfe other herbes, fome whereof are fet forth in the foregoing, and 
others in the (iicceeding Clajjls,e ach as they doe more efpecially partake with that Tribe wherein they are placed, 
as Epithymum before, and Pc/lipodie afterwards, and diverfe others alio among the bulbous and tuberous rootes, 
fet forth in my former booke, as Daffodills, Sowbread, &c. And thus have I fhewed you not onely all the ftrong 
purgers, but many others that are but moderate, conducing or helping, to open or loofen the belly. Andnow it 
is meete thatl convert my (tile to another Claffis, or fort of hearbes, which are thofe that are venemous, and 
deadly, or dangerous at the lead; asalfofieepie andhurtfull Plants, and after them with thofe that ar a Alexius 
pharmaca, the Antidotes, ot Counter-poyfons, of poyfonfull or dangerous Hearbes. 
PLAN3 
Melochia five Corchorusi 
Thclewes Mallow. 
