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 first sort groweth, sending forth seven, or eight, or nine Leaves from a small brownish creeping root, every one standing on a long Footstalk, and being almost as broad as long, round pointed of a sad green colour, hard in handling, and like unto the Leaf of the Peartree, but others compare them to be like unto the small leaves of Beets, from whence ariseth a slender weak stalk, yet stand∣ing upright, bearing at the top many small white flowers, smelling as sweet as those of Lilly Convally, laid open like a star, consisting of five round pointed leaves, with many yellowish threds standing in the middle, about a green head and a long stile with them, which in time groweth to be the Seed-Vessel, which when it is ripe is formed five square with a small point at it, wherein is con∣tained as small seed, as the dust it self.