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 Names.

IT hath no Greek Name, unless it be, as some think, that Herb which Aetius calleth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: but few dare venter to say, it is the same, because there is no∣thing but the bare Name, without any Description extant in him; yet the Greek word signifieth Scabies in Latine. It took the name of Scabi••sa, either à foliorum scabritie quae pr••sertim primo huic generi convenit, or rather, and that more usually, quòd Scabi••i medetur, which it doth by Signature; for Crollius saith moreover, quòd in summis caulium capitulis florum calices promit, compactili squam∣marum ordine structos: ideò Scabi••i medetur, that is, It brings forth cups of Flow∣ers, which stand on the tops of the stalks, like unto scales or scabs; and this also may be a reason, why it is called so. The Name is applyed to divers Herbs, as to the Jacea's Stabe's, and others; but there hath much difference been discovered between them by the modern Herbarists, as in the Heads of Flowers, and also by the Leaves, if they be broken; for the Leaves of Scabious, being broken easily, you may plainly perceive many little Films in them, which Knapweed, or Stab•• hath not.