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.

IT is called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from the sharp tast that it hath; in Latine, Trifol••um Acetosum, and of some, Panis Cucul•• Cuckow-bread either because the Cuck∣owes de••ight to seed thereon, or that it beginneth to b••ossom, when the Cuckow beginneth to ••tter her voyce. It is ca••ed by the Apothecarie in their Shops, Alleluja and 〈…〉〈…〉jula, the one as some think because it was found in Pro∣cession, whi••est the Processioners were singing Alleluja or else because it ••ow∣reth about that time, which is used to be between Easter & Wh••ts••utide, the other came corruptly ••rom Juliola, as they of Calabria in N••ples do call it: In Eng∣lish Wood-Sorrel, Wood-sower, Stabwort, and Sorrel du bois.