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 〉, V••tis alba, and V••talba, not that it is a Vine, but because it is somwhat like one; as also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifying to put ••orth becau••e it putteth forth many branches, whi••h c••amber ••pon the adjoyning bushes growing by them; it is likewise called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 becau••e formerly ••ome u••ed the ••eeds or graines to get off Haire growing in tho••e places it should not. In Latine, of some V••t••cella of others Rorastrum, Apiast••llum, and Uva Tam••n a; but of most V••tis alba, and Bryonia; in English Bryony, White-Bryony Wh••te-VVild-Vine: the Grapes or Berries that grow thereon being called Te••ter-berries, because they are effectual to kill Tetters. The black Bryony is called S••gillum Sancta Maria, out Ladies Signet.