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

It hath divers small, round, hollow Leaves, somewhat greenish, but full of cer∣tain red hairs, which makes them seem red, every one standing upon his own foot stalk, which is likewise of a reddish colour, and hairy. The Leaves are continually moyst in the hottest day; yea, the hotter the Sun shines on them, the moyster they are, with a certain sliminesse that will rope (as we say) the small hairs al∣wayes holding this moysture. Among those Leaves rise up small slender stalks, reddish also, three or four fingers high, bearing divers small white knobs, one a∣bove another, which are the Flowers; after which in the Heads, are certain small Seeds; the Root looketh, as if it consisted of a few small hairs.