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.

This Excrescence called Jewes-Eares, is a soft and limber Mushrome, which while it is fresh, is not very thick, but transparent, and of a blackish colour, of differing forms and sizes; for some will be swolne and puffed up, in one place more then in another, having some resemblance to a Mans Eare; some thin on the edge, and thick in the middle; and some two or three growing together: all of them being dryed, become of a blackish, gray colour, and then may be kept a whole year, or more, safe without spoyling, to be used as you need.