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Show « Cwar.6s. — Trips, Theatrum Botanicum. ~ Alcea veficaria five Veneta, at noone. Goodnight or Mallow Venice 1, Alea vulgaris. Fine cut of Vecvaine Mallow. Trise 2. The Kt The Theater of Plants. Alcea FEgyptia vulgaris. s M ordinary 6 ec ardlinaty Bgppsian Malloy Cua r.65. 303 “5 Alcea Biyyptia ih ; mo{chaia Abelmosch ditta h The Egyptian Muske Mallow. Divifio tertia, The third Divifion, Saidariffa fin Alcea Americana. The Mallowof America’ or‘Yhorny Mallow. Fy 1, Althea vulgaris, Common marth Mallowes. ot foure= foote high; tobe three 1 Our common marfh Malloweshath divers {oft hoary white ftalkes, rifing fomewhatleffer then Malfpreading forth manybranches, the leaves whereof are foft and hoary, or woolly, SSS ; UPD = a ay). ER Si Sint | Ba aly ‘ not deepe : the flowers are many lowleaves,but longer pointed,cut for the moft part into fome few divifions,but after which come fuchi like round but {maller then thofe ofthe Mallow, and white or tending to ablufh colour, cafes;and fede as is inthe Mallow the rootes are manyand long, {hooting fromone head, ofthe bigneffe of a S 4 GID G ¢ SSG a . on the outfide, and thumbe or finger, very pliant tough and bending like Licoris; of a whitith yellowA colour ; Z . “44 more white within, fullofa flimievifcous juice, which being layd in water, will fo thicken it, as if ir were gelly. ’ a2 Althea Pannonica. Marth Mallow of Hungarie, ‘ leaves, This Huazarian Marth Mallow differethnot in rootes, ftalkes or feede fromthe former, but onely inthofe of and greater then that they are fomewhat harder in handling and inthe flowers which are muchlarger Vervaine Mallow, and of a purple colour for the moft part : yet there is fome that beare white flowers as large as the former, and fomethat have not {o large flowers as they, yetlarger then thofe of rhe commonkind, . Althea rofea peregrina. The ftrange Rofe marfh Mallow. This Mallowfhooteth forth about A4ay fandry round greenifh foft branched ftalkes, like the former marfhé Mallow,befet with divers foft greene leaves, and gray underneath, refembling the other but longer pointed : at the tops of the {tales and branches ftand feverall white fowers,made of five large leavesa peece,fomewhat like a Hollihock witha tuft of white threds, compaffing a middle pointell, iffuing out of a greene buttonor huske, which is as it were ribbed and broadat the bottome, narrowing to the toppe before the flower blow, withour any fent like the Hollihocke : all the ftalkes die downe every yeare to the ground, the roote is thicke white and ficthy abiding fafe in the earthall the winter. 4. Althea femper virens Bryoniz folio, Ever greené marth Mallowes, This everereene marfh Mallowe, hath many faire large whitifh greene leaves, fomewhat thicke,full ofveinés androughor hairy, but whitifhor hoary underneath,cut in or divided intofive parts ufually, fomewhat like a Bryonie leafe: the {talkes are hoary white and round, rifing to betwoor thee foote high, having fuch like large Ieavesuponthem, and {maller alfoamong them, ftanding all of themuponlong footeltalkes : the flowers are like unto thofe of rhe Mallowes, and much abontthe fame colour, confifting offive broad pointed leaves, having many red threds in the middle : after which come flat leafed heads, fuch as other Mallowes have, whereinis conteinedfachlike fmall feede : the rootes are difperfed into feverall parts under ground, and dye not, but reraine fome of the leaves upon them all the winter, although the flalkes dye downe and perifh to the ground, g. Althea Ddz ire |