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.

The Black-Thorn never groweth to the greatnesse of a Tree, but alwayes abi∣deth as a hedge bush, yet in some places higher then other, rising up usually with divers stems from the Roots, branched forth into many boughes armed with good store of strong, short, and sharp thorns, set with and besides the smal da••k green leaves, finely dented about the edges, whereon do grow at the time of the year, many very white Flowers composed of five leaves, after the same manner as they do on other Plum-Trees, with divers white threds tipt with yellow in the middle, after which follows the round fruit, which continueth green a long

while, yet at length becometh black, but never very bigge, of an exceeding harsh tast, before they are ripe, yet afterwards the harshnesse is somewhat abated. The Root is great and woody, spreading under ground, and shooting forth a∣gain in divers places.