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 〉 Arceuthos or Arceuthis 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, id est 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 saith the Etymo••ogist, quia celet noxam, but then sure••y it must be by Antiphrasts, for certainly there is no plant that hath more ap∣parent P••ickles then it. It is called in Latine Juniperus, quod juniores & novellos fructus pariat. because it bringeth forth new fruit before the old be ripe, which will not be perfected in lesse then two yeares ••pace. Some would have it come from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ignis, either because of the Pyramicall forme of the Leafe, or be∣cause, as some say, the Wood being kindled and raked up in Ashes will keepe fire a yeare & that the Coals thereof are very hot may be gathered from the fifth verse of Psalme 120 where a question being made, VVhat should be the reward of a false Tongue? The Answer is, Sharpe Arrowes of the mighty, with Coales of Juniper intimating them to be the hottest of all Coales. The Berries as well as the Tree are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek, and somtimes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Arceuthides: In Latine, Bacca Juniperi, and Grana Juniperi; and the Gum that issueth out of the wound∣ed roots is cal••ed Vernix or Vernia, quasi veris ros, because it is most plentifull in the Spring, it is called also Lachryma Juniper; and Sandaracha, yet there is ano∣ther kind of Sandaracha which is taken out of Mines, and is a kind of Orpment.