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 ...

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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 ...
Author
Coles, William, 1626-1662.
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London :: Printed by J. Streater for Nathaniel Brooke ...,
1657.
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33771.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.

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The Kinds.

Because the best Saxifrage that is growes in England, I shall trouble you with no forreine sorts, we having nine or ten sorts of our own which for their Vertues not for their formes I shall put together. 1. English Saxifrage so called because it

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groweth more plentifully in England then in any other Country. 2. Mr. Goodrers Marsh-Saxifrage so called because he first discovered it in a marshy place. 3. Lobels West-Country Saxifrage because Lbl found it in the Westerne parts of this Land. 4. White Saxifrage so called from the colour of the flowers, to di∣stinguish it from the former. 5. Golden Saxifrage from the Golden colour of the Leaves. 6. The greater Burnet Saxifrage, so called because it hath Leaves som∣what like Burner. 7. The middle Burnet Saxifrage. 8. The lesser Burnet Saxifrage. 9. Saxfrage with Chickweed Leaves.

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