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 last thing that I shall treat of as appropriated to t••e diseases of the Brain, as the Falling Sicknesse, Apoplexy, ••alsy, &c. is Misselto, which is called, by Dioscorides, and so is the Birdlime made there∣of; but Theophrastus calls it, who saith also that in Eubaa it is called Stelis and in Arcadia, Hyphear. In Latine it is called Viscus and Viscum, and so is also the Birdlime made of the Berries. Ion the Poet call it S••dor Quercus, Because it groweth on Trees from their own superfluous moisture, and not as some falsely suppose from the dunging of those Blackbirds or rather Thrushes which have eaten the Berries hereof, so the seeds have been made fitter to grow. For it is since found by Experience, that there is no shew of seed in that dung they void upon the Trees, or elsewhere, it being wholly alte∣red in their bellies before the voiding; And further the Misselto doth not a••∣waies grow upon the boughs, but sometimes from beneath them, where it is impossible that either any bird can dung, or any of the seed come thither, by any other means; And therefore he mistook that said, Turdus tibi cacat malum.