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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Coles, William, 1626-1662.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Streater for Nathaniel Brooke ...,; 1657.
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
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The Names.

IT is called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, if divers Authours be not mistaken, being as is ge∣nerally supposed that Plant that Dioscorides mentioneth under that name. It is called in Latine Carduus Lacteus, and Carduus Mariae; in English Our La∣dies Thistle, or, the Striped Milky Thistle. Some think it to be Leucacantha, or Spina Alba of the Antients; others take it to be Leucographis Plinii. Brunfelfius calleth it Carduus Albus, and Camaeleon; Matthiolus and Lobel, Carduus Lacteus, some Carduus Argentatus, and Carduus Ramptarius; others Carduus Leuco∣graphus, and Silybum and Acanon Theophrasti.