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 〉 Echium 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Alc••biadion, and Alcibion, or Alc••b••acum of the first under thereof; who being bitten by a Viper▪ gathered this Herb, and chewing it, swallowing down the juyce and app••ying the rest of the Herb to the bitten place freed him••e••f from danger. Apulcius saith, it was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Theriorr••••on, Viperearad••x, an•• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, from the form of the Seed, whi••h as Dioscorides saith, is like the head of a Viper, and thereof took the name Echium: yet some others say from the ef••ects in the Roots to cure the bitings of the Serpent, or which is as likely, because the stalks are spe••kled like a Serpents Skin: in Latine also Echium of most Authours, yet of some Buglossum sylvestre V••perinum.