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 Names.

THe Garden Violet is called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Viola purpurea by Dio∣scorides, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Viola nigra, and Melanion by The∣ophrastus. Some would have the name to come from Io, whom Jove transformed into a Cow, because she fed on them, cheifly; Others from certain Nymphes of Jonia, who first gave of the Flowers to Jupiter, for a presen•••• others think it to be derived 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quasi••re, aut primum prorumpere: veris enim praevia, est Viola; because it is one of the first herbs that flowreth. The Latines call it Viola Martia, and Herba Violaria▪ Hearts••ease, which is also a kind of Violet, is called in English Pansyes, as also Love in idlenesse, Call me to you, and, Three faces under a hood: in Latine, Viola Tricolor, &c: of the three colours therein.