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 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, according to the Poets, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, because the Antients were wont to shut their Eyes, as often as they eat them, lesf they should make them Water. It is called in Latine Cepa and Cepe from Caput, as some think, because of the greatnesse of their head, and Unio because the root is single not giving off-setts for increase, as other bulbous roots do. The old writers have given it Sirnames from the place where it grew as Cy∣pria, Sardia, Cretica, Samothracia and Ascalonia from whence comes our English word Scallions which are set Onyons, the lesser sort whereof are by some called Chibouls from the French name S••boula.