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.

Ordinary Lovage hath many long and great stalkes of large winged Leaves, di∣vided into many parts like Smallage, but much larger, of a sad green colour, smooth and shining, every Leafe being cut about the edges, and broader for∣ward then towards the Stalke: The Stalkes that arise from thence are diverse, and of different proportions, according to the goodnesse or badness of the Soile wherein they grow, as also to their time of continuance: for though in a fat soile where it hath grown long, they attaine unto the height of five or six foot, yet if the ground be barren, or the herb but newly set, they seldome exceed three or four, answerable whereunto is the bignesse of them, being green and hollow, set with lesser leaves then those that grow below: towards the tops of these, come forth other smaller branches, bearing at their tops large Um∣bels of yellow Flowers, which turne into flat brounish seed, somewhat like the seed of Angelica. The root groweth large both in length and thicknesse, being of a brownish colour without side, and white within. The whole Plant smelleth strong, and in tast is both hot, sharp and biting.