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 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Thymbron and Thymbra, perhaps from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 suffio, because of its odor or smell; and Thymbra also in Latine, be∣sides which, it hath none other Latine Name as some suppose, though o∣thers make bold to call it Satureia, either à saturando, because it is used in broth and stewed meates, to give thereunto a good rellish, and by that meanes causeth them the better to satisfie hunger, or from Satyrus, A Satyre, because they used it to provoke Venery, which I cannot be so confident as to assert, see∣ing that I find that it helpeth the disease called Satyriasis or Priapismus, which is wrought by a contrary quality, which derivation I suppose to be rather by Anti∣phrasis; Some hold it also to be the same which was called Cunila by the An∣cients.