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 ordinary Fig-tree, is usually planted against a Wall; and therefore to be conceived of no extraordinary bignesse, with a grayish rugged bark on the body and elder boughs, and green on the younger which are hollow, and pithy in the middle: the leaves grow single on the Branches, being long, large, thick, rough and of a sad green colour on the upperside, whitish underneath, divided into three, but usually into five parts; yeelding a sharp bitter, and almost exulcerating milk when they are broken, as the branches and Figs also will do when they are green: the fruit breaketh out from the branches without any flower or blossom,

and are both of sundry colours, of several sizes, and ripening at contrary times of the year: as also with thicker or thinner skins that cover them. Those that are most ordinary are white, and of a reasonable bignesse.