A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

Of Mallowes. Chap. xxiiij.

❀ The Kindes.

THere be diuers sortes of Mallowes, whereof some be of the garden, and some be wilde, the whiche also be of diuers kindes. The garden Mallow, called the winter or beyondsea roose, is of diuers sorts, not only in leaues, stalkes, and growing, but in proportion, colour, & flowers: for some be single, some double, some white, some carnation, some of a cleare or light red, some of a darke redde, some gray, and speckled. The wilde Mallowes are also of two sortes, the great and the small.

[illustration]

Malua satiua. Holyhocke or garden Mallow.

[illustration]

Malua syluestris elatior. Wild Hocke or the greater wild Mallow.

❀ The Description.

[ 1] THE great tame Mallow which beareth the beyondsea or winter rose, hath great round rough leaues, larger, whiter, and vneuener: then the leaues of the other Hockes or Mallowes. The stalke is rounde, and

groweth sixe or seuen foote high or more: it beareth fayre great flowers of di∣uers coloures, in figure lyke to the common Mallowe or Hocke: but a great deale bigger, sometimes single, somtimes double. The flowers fallen the seede commeth vp lyke smal cheeses. The roote is great and long, and continueth a long time, putting foorth yerely newe leaues and stalkes.

[ 2] The great wilde Mallow, hath leaues somewhat round, fat, and a litle cut or snipt rounde about the borders, but of a browner colour, smaller and euener then the leaues of the Hollyhocke. The stalke is rounde of two or three foote long, thervpon grow the flowers in fashion like to the other, but much smaller, and parted into fiue leaues of a purple carnation colour, after whiche commeth the seede, whiche is rounde and flat, made lyke litle cheeses. The roote is long, and of a conuenient thicknesse.

[ 3] The smal wilde Mallow is very muche lyke to the great wilde Mallowe, sauing that his leaues be a litle rounder and smal∣ler: the flowers be pale, & the stalkes grow not high, or vpright: but trayle alongest the grounde. The roote is lykewyse long and thicke.

❀ The Place.

[ 1] The Hollyhocke or garden Mallowe, is sowen and planted in gardēs of this Coun∣trie.

[ 1.3] The wilde kindes growe in vntoyled places, by path wayes, and pastutes.

❀ The Tyme.

Hollyhocke flowreth in Iune, Iuly, and and August. The wild beginneth to flower in Iune, & continueth flowring vntyl Sep∣tember, in the meane space it yeeldeth his seede.

❧ The Names.

Mallowes are called in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Malua: of Pythagoras. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, An∣thema, of Zoroastes, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Diadema: of the Egyptians, Chocortis, of some Vrina muris: in Frenche, Maulue: in high Douche, Pappel: in base Almaigne, Maluwe: in Shoppes Malua: in Englishe, Hockes, and Mallowes.

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Malua syluestris pumila. The smal wild Mallow.

[ 1] The first kind of Mallowes, is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Malua satiua: of some Rosa vltramarina: that is to say, the Beyondesea Rose: in Frenche, Maulue de iardin, or cultiuée in hygh Douche, Garden Pappeln, Ernrosz, or Herbstrosz: in base Almaigne, Winter∣roosen: in English, Holyhockes, and great tame Mallow, or great Mallowes of the garden.

[ 2] The wilde Mallow is called in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Malua sylue∣stris: in high Almaigne, Gemeyn Pappeln: in base Almaigne, Maluwe, and Keeskens cruyt: wherof that sort which groweth vpright and highest, is called Malua elatior, that is the common Mallowe, or the tawle wilde Mallow, and the common Hockes.

[ 3] The second wild kind which is the least, is called Malua syluestris pumila, or Malua pumila, that is to say, the small wilde Hocke, or Dwarffe Mallowe: in Douche, Cleyn Maluwe.

❀ The Nature.

Mallowes are temperate in heate and moysture, of a digestiue and softe∣ning nature.

❧ The Vertues.

[ A] Mallowes taken in meate, nourish better then Letuce, and soften the belly: neuerthelesse they be hurtfull to the stomacke, for they loose and mollitie or relent the same.

[ B] The rawe leaues of Mallowes eaten with a litle salt, helpe the payne and exulceration of the kidneyes and bladder.

[ C] For the same purpose and against the grauel and stone, Mallowes are good to be boyled in water or wine, and dronken.

[ D] The decoction or broth of Mallowes with their rootes, are good agaynst al venome and poyson, to be taken incontinently after the poyson, so that it be vomited vp againe.

[ E] It doth mollifie and supple the tumours and hardnes of the mother, if wo∣men bathe in the broth thereof.

[ F] It is good against al going of, of the skin, excoriations, gnawings, rough∣nesse and fretting of the bladder, guttes, mother, and fundement, if it be put in with a glister.

[ G] The seede of Mallowes dronken in wine, causeth abundance of milke, and is good for them that feele paine in the bladder, and are troubled with grauel.

[ H] Mallowes are good to be layde to against the stinginges of Waspes and Bees, and draw foorth thornes and splinters, if they be layde therevpon.

[ I] The same raw or boyled, and pounde by them self, or with Swines grease, do supple, mollifie, rype, and dissolue all kindes of tumours, hoate and colde.

[ K] The rootes of Mallowes rosted in the imbers or hoate asshes, and pounde very smal, are very good to be layd to as an implaister, against the exulceration and sorenesse of womens breastes.

❀ The Choise.

The garden Mallow is whelsomer to be eaten, then the wilde Mallow: but in medicine, to soften hardnesse & dissolue swellinges or tumours, the wild kinde is better and of more vertue, then the garden Mallow.