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 common Waybred beareth many fair broad and almost round Leaves, saving that they are a little pointed at the end with seven ribs or sinews in most of them, running from the one end of the Leafe to the other, of a saddish green colour on the upperside, but more inclining to yellow underneath; from a∣mongst which do rise up divers small slender stalks of about a foot high, naked and bare of Leaves up to the top, whereon groweth a blackish green spike or sca∣ly head, with blossomes like unto those of Corne, after which cometh the seed, which being small, is enclosed in those little husks; The Root is made of many white little strings, whereby it taketh fast hold in the ground.