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 Forme.

The Rose hath long stalks, of a wooddy substance, set, or armed for the most part with divers sharp prickles: the branches whereof, are likewise full of prickles, whereon do commonly grow leaves, consisting of five parts, set upon a middle Rib by couples: t••e odd one standing at the point of the same, every one of them somewhat snipt about the edges, ••omewhat rough, and of an over∣worn green colour: from the bosom whereof, shoot out pretty big foot-stalks, whereon do grow very fair flowers, some single, some double, ••ome white, some red, some damask, some yellow, &c. for the most part of a very sweet smell, ha∣ving in the middle, a few yellow threds, or chives, which being past, there suc∣ceedeth a long fruit, green at the first, red when it is ripe, and stuffed with a downy choaking matter, wherein is contained Seed as hard as stones. The Root is long, tough, and of a wooddy substance.