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 Form.

The Mechoacan of Peru, as it groweth in these parts, sendeth forth long branches of a dark grayish colour winding about whatsoever is next them, and therefore Poles are set for them to run upon; The Leaves are somewhat broad∣pointed at the ends like unto those of black Briony, saving that they are thinner and harder in handling, seeming so dry as if they had no juice in them: The flow∣ers (which are many, and stand in long clus••ers) are of a sullen yellow colour in the Indies, of the bignesse of an Orenge flower, in the warmer Countries of Eu∣rope of a dark whitish colour, but with us it was never known to flower by rea∣son of the coldnesse of the Climate; the Root groweth to be as great as any Brio∣ny root almost, without either tast or smell, having Circles in it when it is cut, as may be perceived by the dry root, which is brought over to us, and may easily be brought into powder.