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 Temperature.

VVild Tansie, especially the Root of it, is dry almost in the third Degree, ha∣having in it very little heat apparent; and withall, a binding faculty. And there∣fore Fuschius saith, that some Writers have been much mistaken, in affirming it to be moyst, for no other Reason, but because it grows in moyst places. For then Water-Cresses, which are dry in the third Degree, must be moyst also; which no one dares be so impudent as to affirm. And certainly, had they but considered its astringency, which is a certain token of drynesse, they could not have conclu∣ded otherwise. For Galen in his fourth Book of the faculties of simple Medicines saith, that astringents have in them some earthly quality, and are consequently drying.