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.

THe tree is named in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Morea and Sycaminus in Latine; Morus à Morâ, from its slownesse to put forth its Leaves, for of all trees it buddeth last, which it seldom doth before May, the cold weather being past; and therefore the old Writers were wont to call it the wisest tree. It is called in shops Morus celsa quasi excelsa, as a di∣stinction between it and the Bramble Cubus, whose Berries are also called Mora, but b••••i is added to know them by.