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 Form.

The purple Pasque-flower hath many leaves lying on the ground, somewhat rough or ha••ry hard in feeling, and finely cut into many small Leaves, of a dark green colour almost like the leaves of Carrets, but finer and smaller, from among which rise up naked stalks, rough or ha••ry also, for about the middle thereof with some small divided Leaves compassing them, above which they rise almost a span each of them bearing one pendulous Flower made of six Leaves, and of a fine Vio∣let Purple colour, but somewhat deep withall, in the middle whereof stand many yellow threds, set about a purple pointel; after the Flower is past, there cometh up instead thereof, a bushy head of long seedes, which are small and hoary, having at the end of every one a small hair, which is grey likewise; the root is small and long▪ growing downwards into the ground, with a tuft of hair at the head there∣of, and not lying or running under the upper crust thereof, as the other wild Ane∣monies do, which is the greatest difference betwixt them: The Plant is of no sharpness untill it be bruised between ones fingers, and then the Leaves held to the Nose will twinge the nostrills very much.