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.

BY what Name the ancient Botanists did call this Plant, is altogether un∣known, but the later call it Argentina, à foliorum argenteo splendore, from the bright silver colour of the Leaves; or rather as Gerard saith, of the silver drops that are to be seen in the distilled water thereof, when it is put into a Glasse, which you shall easily see rouling and tumbling up and down in the bottom: It is likewise called Potentilla, ab eximiis viribus qui∣bus pollet, from its powerful operations: of divers, Agrimonia silvestris, there being some likenesse between it and Agrimony: Anserina, because Geese love to feed upon it: And Tanacetum sylvestre, it differing little from the Garden Tansie; but in colour. In English, it is called Wild Tansie, and Silverweed, whereof there is but one kind.