As a garden plant of course the Wild Mallow has no place, though the fine-cut leaves and faint scent of the Musk Mallow (_M. moschata_) might demand a place for it in those parts where it is not wild, and especially the white variety, which is of the purest white, and very ornamental. But our common Mallow is closely allied to some of the handsomest plants known. The Hollyhock is one very near relation, the beautiful Hibiscus is another, and the very handsome Fremontia Californica is a third that has only been added to our gardens during the last few years. Nor is it only allied to beauty, for it also claims as a very near relation a plant which to many would be considered the most commercially useful plant in the world, the Cotton-plant. MANDRAGORA, OR MANDRAKES. (1) _Cleopatra._ Give me to drink Mandragora. _Charmian._ Why, madam? _Cleopatra._ That I might sleep out this great gap of time, My Antony is away. _Antony and Cleopatra_, act i, sc. 5 (4). (2) _Iago._ Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. _Othello_, act iii, sc. 3 (330). (3) _Falstaff._ Thou Mandrake. _2nd Henry IV_, act i, sc. 2 (16). (4) _Ditto._ They called him Mandrake. _Ibid._, act iii, sc. 2 (338). (5) _Suffolk._ Would curses kill, as doth the Mandrake's groan. _2nd Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 2 (310). (6) _Juliet._ And shrieks like Mandrakes' torn out of the earth That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. _Romeo and Juliet_, act iv, sc. 3 (47).