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.

Motherwort groweth with hard, square, brownish, rough, strong Stalkes, ri∣sing to be two or three foot high, and sometimes more, spreading into many branches, whereon grow Leaves on each side with long foot-stalkes, two at eve∣ry joynt, which are somewhat broad and long, rough as it were, and crumpled with many great veines, that shew themselves therein of a sad green colour, and so deeply dented about the edges, that they may be said almost to be torn or divided: from the middle of the branches up to the top of them, doe grow the Flowers round about them at distances, in sharp-pointed rough hard huskes, somewhat after the manner of Bawm, or rather of Horehound (of which some would have it to be a kinde) being of the same forme, though of a more red or Purple colour, after which come small round blackish Seeds in great plenty, which being suffered to shed, filleth all the places about it with its off-spring, so that there needeth no care of propagation: The Root is compact of many small strings: The whole Plant is of a very ••anke smell, and bitter taste.