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 〉 because it alwayes creeps upon the ground, and hath Leaves somewhat like unto the true Ivy, yet they are lesser, thinner, hairy, and crumpled as it were. It is called also, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 because it spreadeth, and is a Garland upon the Ground. It is called in Latine Hedera hum••lis, Hedera terrestris, and Corona terrae. Cordus calleth it Chamadema; and Brunfelsius mistaking it, made it his fourth El••tine. Lugdunensis calleth it Malacocissos, id est, Mollis Hedera Plumiatica. The Shops call it Hedera terrestris, and we in English, according to the several Countries appellations, Gilrumbith-ground, that is, Gill run by the ground. T••••d••oore, Gill creep by the ground, Catsfoot, Hay Maids, and Alehoof most ge∣nerally, or Tunhoof, because Countrey people formerly did use it much in their A••le and Beer, and so they would now, if they were so wise, and Ground Ivy as frequently: although Lobel judgeth the Hedera helix, or barren Ivy, to deserve that name more properly; and some Country people that would have the bar∣ren Ivy to be the true Ground-Ivy, call the other Maiden-hair; but it is only their Opinion, without good advice: for all that have experience in Herbarisme, judge otherwise.