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 Places and Time.

The common Mosse groweth more or lesse every where, but especially in shadowy places, and is used in slating of houses, in some Countries. The Cup

or Callice Mosse which Lobel calls Muscus Pixidatus, creepeth upon the ground like unto Liverwort, but of a yellowish white colour, from who••e Leaves start up things like unto little Cups, and groweth in the most barren, dry, and gra∣velly Ditch Banks, particularly in a Ditch, neer a house formerly called Stockers house, in Stow-Wood, about three miles from Oxford, by the way side, as you go thence to Islip, and sometimes upon old Pales, as upon the School-house Pales at Adderbury in Oxford••hire. The Club-Mosse groweth upon Hamsteed Heath, among the Bushes and Brakes neer a little Cottage there. Oak-mosse is found in many Forrests and Woods in this Land; but the last which is the Mosse of a dead Mans Skull is oftner brought out of Ireland, then found with Us. They are most usually growing, and in their perfection in the Summer∣time.