Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.

Coles, William, 1626-1662.

Date:: 1657

Credit: Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$as Cro//;/0 hath it, it fhould be taken from the Skulls ofchofe which ha'/e peri- (bed by a violent death. CHAP. XVI. 0/Maidenhair. T Hough the Learned Herbarifts make a diftinaion between, tum-iRnta LMHraria^Trichomanes zndiVoljtrlchon Afuleii^ and therefore have treated ohhem in divers Chapters, yet definng to be as brief as conveniently I may, and becaufe they are all Capillary herbs, and may be comprehended under the title of Maidenhair^ I fhal make but one Chapter of them* The Names^ Maidenhair is called in Greek, AJ^aprev nllehiui&^p « n in Latine Adiantnm^ Polytrichum^ CallitrkhHrn^ Cincinnalis^ Terra Caflllus^ and Sn^ercUmm Terra;oi Apuleius Caplins Tienerisy Capillaris^ Crinha; and of divers, ; The Italians keep the name of Capillus Tenerisy and lb do the Shops; In EngliflijBlack Maidenihair, and P^enus hair; and by Ibme,- otir La¬ dies hair. Some think it to be called <t/€dlantHm becaulejicT/aufiTOiitis never wet;butfalfly,forifitbe'dippediH Water it will be wet. Others think, that Rain which falls down in Drops upon the leaves of if, Hide oif immediately lea¬ ving no fign of moifture; But the moft likely opinion is, that it is fo called be-^ caule it loveth to grow on the fides of Wells above, where the water never comes, but where the water comes it never gfowcs,and in this fenfe it may be faid, “ «ll«#>'«'nM.It is called Callitrichony^xA Polytrkhony ofthe effeff it hath in dying hair,and making itto grow thick. Neither is it called Capillus Veneris for any other reafon, but becaule (he is painted with curious hair. Rnta Mn-^ rafiay wasfirft fo called by Matthiolnsy who afterwards took it to be Paronychia^ Diofcor'fdis, Cordus cdWoxh It<fAdiantHm album' Tiodon&usy Rma Mttraria'y aud Label and Lugdunjisy Salvia vita^ and many call it Adiantum albumy'^\\vi^ Mai¬ denhair. Trichomanes is called in Greek *tey^y»po% qmd rard cute fjientem Ca-i f ilium explet for fMpif is rams and •)^yCapillus, Gaz,a tranflated it Vilicula and Tome have it The Apothecaries beyond the le3,didureto call ViPolytricum^xA ; We ulually call it in Latine Trichomanesyzndi in EnglifhCommonMaidenhair,and Englilh Maidenhair, becaufe it is mote plentifull in our Land then the reft, and is of more ufe, and of as good effect for all purpofes as the former. The laft fort is Polytrichum Apulei by fome cal¬ led, ^oljtrichum aureumy by others Adiantum aureumy Adiautumdl^uhAfip and OlAnfcHs Capillaris; in Englilh, Golden Maidenhair* The Kinds» % All the forts ofMaidenhair that I meet with, are eight, i. The True Mai^ denhair*2. Common Black Maidenhair. 5. Forrain or Ajfyrian Maidenhair. 4. Wall Rue. 5.TheMaleEngli{h Maidenhair. 6, Female Englifti Maiden¬ hair. 7, Greatgolden Maidenhair. 8. The leffer Golden Maidenhair. Moft of thefe forts are ftrangers in England unleffe it be Wall Rue, and that which is EnglUh Maidenhair? whofe form only I jQaall fee down? *$