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 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Teutlon and Seutlon, ab impulsu, quòd facilè excrescat, because it cometh up within few dayes after the sowing, and afterwards groweth very fast untill it attaine to its bignesse, which in ••ome hot Countryes will be three foot in length, and of a great breadth. It is called Beta in Latine, quoniam Figuram Luerae Graecae C dum semine turget, re∣ferre videtur, because the figure of it being in seed is somwhat like the Greeke Letter Beta, as Columella hath it. It is called also Sicula, and Sicla by some be∣cause it is supposed that it was first brought out of Sicily, viz. The White Beet. In this place for want of a fitter I shall speake of Spinage, because it deserves not a Chapter by it selfe, Ob raritatem in usu medico, which made the Greeks call it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, being seldom used in Physick, yet amongst Sallets and Pot-herbs there be few more common. Some Latine Authors call it Spinachia, and Spinaccum; others Spanachia, supposing it grew originally in Spaine, and Olus Hispanicum.