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 common Sow-fennel hath divers branched stiff stalks, full of knees, of somewhat thick and long leaves, almost like the leaves of the wild Pine, three for the most part joyned together at a place, amongst which riseth a crested straight stalk, lesse then Fennel, with some joynts thereon, and leaves growing thereat, and toward the top some branches issuing from thence: likewise on the tops of the stalks and branches, stand divers tufts of yellow Flowers, where after grow somewhat flat, thin, and yellowish Seeds, almost twice as big as Fen∣nel-Seed. The Root groweth great, and deep, with many other parts and Fi∣bres about them, of a strong scent, like melted Brimstone yielding forth a yel∣lowish milk, or clammy juyce, somewhat like a Gum, and having also at the top of it, about the superficies of the Earth, a certain bush of hair, of a brown Co∣lour, amongst which the leaves and stalks do spring forth.