Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...

The Forme.

The greater Lentill hath sundry, slender weak Branches, somewhat hard, two foot long, from whence shoot forth at severall places long stalks, of small winged Leaves, that is many on each side, of a middle Rib, without any odd one at the end; for the middle Rib of each stalk, endeth in a small clasper: the Flowers are small, and rise from between the leaves and the stalks, two for the most part at the end of a long foot-stalk, of a sad reddish purple colour, somewhat like to those of Vetches, after which come small, short, and somewhat flat Cods, within which are contained two or three flat, round, smooth Seeds, of a pale, yellowish, ash colour; the Root is fibrous, and perisheth yearly.