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.

UNder the title of Succory, three sorts of Plants are comprehended, viz: Cichory, Endive, and Dandelyon, differing not so much in operation as in forme, all which are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek by one general name▪ yet for distincti∣on sake common Succory is called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, because as it seemes it grew wild there; and that which hath broad Leaves Pliny nameth Hedypnois; and the bitterer, Dioscorides calleth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which signifies bitternesse, in Latine Cichoreum & Cicorea, Inty••us and Intybum, all which words are used promiscuously, both for Succory and Endive, but commonly they are distinguished; Dandelion is called Dens Leonis in Latine, from the likenesse the jagged Leaves have with a Lyons tooth, as also Taraxacon.