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 〉, or as Gesuer hath it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by Nico∣laus Myrepsus, besides whom there is not any Greek Author that is known to have mentioned it by that name. Divers of good judgment do refer it to the Sideritis Secunda, of Dioscorides. Some call it in Latin Pimpinella, Pampinula and Peponella, from the likenesse of the scent with that of Cucum∣bers; yet others referr these names to the Saxifrage kinds of Burnet, which are ••••belliferous plants. It is called Sorbastrolla and Sang〈…〉〈…〉aria also of divers, but most usually Sanguisorba, quod Sanguineos fluxus sistat, because it stops fluxes of blood; and it may be Bipinella, or Bipenula, because the leaves stand one against another like wings. It is to be observed, that Pimpinella Burnet, and Pimper∣nell are different plants, though some have Ignorantly taken them for the same.