ey 
Adam in Eden, Or, 
CH A PRALVE,. 
of Alves or Sea Houfeleek. 
/ t he Naiede 
‘ Tofcoriden, and all others both ancient and modern writers call it A’a0i 
Which name fome fupppoleto have been giver to ir,either from #8 
ams that is, 4 fale; or elfe from anos 4 Salo, the Sea it felf with whofe 
breath itis much delighted, Itis called alf0, Augi¢rey beciatie:i it grow- 
-echnot onlyin the ground, but {ometimes out of the ground,chough it be hanged 
~upinanhoufe. Some ofthe modern Herbarifts do call it Semper ViVHM Tari- 
- #um,trom the thicknefs of the leaves and likeneffe unto Sedum majus or the grea- 
ter Honfeleek, called Semper vivum, The hardned Juyce thereof,is alfo utually 
called Aloes of which (as Schroderus {atih) there be four forts now in ule, and be- 
~ caufe there is but one kind (except the American) of that plane, I will fet down 
- the kinds of es, ° 
Jaye ~The Kisdes, ; . ' 
sp Theres 1. A Blackifh fort called Aloe Caballina, becanfe itis fit only for 
orfes.2, Amore pure fort,in colour like ie ce, called Aloe Hepatica, 3. 
Aloe Succotri Set he, bec ice thete- 
‘get fieweth very oiiiae like a kind ofte 
aa! is moft dey: and se 
re thick (talk little moi ritgmany mall 
flowers. - Ic Beateth Teed | in husks like unto an cAfphodil aicer thie 
aft } the ‘root-is thick and about a for long, or leffe Wichin the 
Bouefome cick Fibres at the end. 
The Places and Time 
ae groweth in Arabia, aA ay Spriay and all the Eat Countries, ane iti Fodi- 
=, Beitr te cg the land, as near the Sea fide;and in the iflands there _ 
as ‘in Socotora, as Garcins {aith, where the beftis made, as alfo in man places in 
“Anialonfa neat the lea thore in tach plenty tre divers © 
ood ftore of Aloes there ; bur aftertryall it was not 
asthe Indian fort. Ic flowreth in the hotter Coun- 
th ‘moneths, but never in thefe colder ; for it is preferved 
rea care from the frofs in Winter, which will cate | peut FOr, HE a 
beyer fo little cold. ie 
The 
