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.

Common Penny-royall hath many weak round stalks divided into sundry branches, rather leaning or lying on the ground then standing upright, where∣on are set at severall joynts small roundish dark green Leaves, close by which towards the tops of the branches, do come forth divers rundles of small flowers, of a purple, and sometimes of a whitish colour; I he branches being broken and thrust in the earth, w^ch is the usuall way of propagating it, (for I never observed nor heard whether it bear any seed or no) shoot for small fibres or Roots at the joynts, as it lyeth upon the ground, fastening it self therein, so that it quickly overspreadeth the place where it hath once taken footing, especially if it be moist and shady; It is of somewhat a strong but very wholesome smell.