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.

I Doubt very much, whether this Plant were at all known unto the Greci∣ans, because I cannot finde it in Dioscorides, or any ancient or modern Greek Authour to be so much as mentioned, though I have sought diligent∣ly for it. It is called in Latine Lavandula & Lavendula, and of some La∣vanda, quia lavacris expetitur, because it is used in Baths, and in washing of the hands for the sweetnesse of the smell. The ordinary great Lavender is called by Matthiolus, Nardus-Italica, & Pseudonardus. Tragus calleth it Spica, & Nardus Germanica; but most Authours call the greater Lavendula, major & mas, as they do the lesser, minor & faemina. It is by some called Spikenard, because it giveth a favour, somewhat like to the true Spikenard; and by others, the female of this here is held to be Lavender, and Spike-the-male.