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 true Goates thorne is a small bushy plant, rising up with many tough woody stemmes not much above a cubit or two-foot high, divided into many slender branches covered with hoarinesse, set with divers long white thornes in a double row, amongst which rise up divers Leaves which being small long, and round, like unto a little wing are set over against one another on each side of a middle rib, abiding all the Winter, yet falling off at such times as the Spring doth bring fresh ones. At the tops of the branches, amongst the Leaves come forth the Flowers, which are of a whitish yellow colour fashioned somewhat like unto the Flowers of a Trefoile, after which come small short upright white Cods wherein are con∣tained small whitish cornered seed. The root is very great and long, spreading much and farr in the ground, which being broken or wounded with some Iron toole yeildeth a certain liquor, which by the heat of the sun is presently turned into a tough pure shinning white gum, shrivelling up it self into small crooked peices, tasting somewhat sweet.