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 Male Red Pimpernel hath divers weak square Stalks lying on the ground, with two small ••nd almost round Leaves at every joynt, one against another, some∣what like unto those of Chickweed, but that they are thicker, spotted on the back∣side with brownish spots, without any foot-stalk, for they do as it were encompass the Stalk, wherein it differeth also from Chickweed: the Flowers stand singly, or each by themseves, at the joynts between them and the Stalks, consisting of five small round▪ pointed Leaves, of a fine pale red colour, tending to an Orenge, with▪ so many threds in the middle, in whose places succeed smooth round heads, wherein the Seed, which i•• small, is contained: The Root is small and fibrous, perishing at, or before Winter.