HERTFORDSHIRE PLANTS NOTED IN WM. COLE’S 
“ADAM IN EDEN,” 1657. 
Most of the following notes which are given in the above book 
are not included in Pryor’s “Flora of Hertfordshire.” Those 
which take precedence of the records there are marked with an 
asterisk. The notes show that Cole visited the county, if, indeed, he 
did not reside in it. He was a native of Oxfordshire, and was the 
first recorder of several plants for that county, as also for Berk¬ 
shire. He died in 1662, at the early age of 36 :— 
*p. 21.— Wilde MaPgerome. On both sides of the footway which leadeth 
from St. Albans to Mr. Cotton’s house, near unto the place where the 
old Verulam stood. —Origanum vulgare. 
*33.—English Maidenhair. Upon a wall near to Goreham-berry, in Hart- 
fordshire.— Asplenium Trichomanes. 
*74.—BistOPt. In a meadow about a stone’s throw above the Abbey Mill at 
St. Albans, about an acre’s breadth or somewhat more from the river¬ 
side, where the common Bistort groweth plentifully, though it be 
chiefly nourished in gardens.— Polygonum Bistorta. 
*76.—Tormentil. Great plenty of it is to be found in Pray Wood, near St. 
Albans.— Potent ilia Tormentilla. 
125.’— Yellow Archangel. Under an hedge on the further side of a meadow 
by St. Albans, near the Causey that leadeth from there to Mr. 
Cotton’s house on the left hand, a little before you come to the 
turning of the way up to Windridge, where I showed to my worthy 
friends, Dr. Arris, a Doctor of Physick, and Mr. Ditchfield, School¬ 
master of St. Albans.— Lamium Galeobdolon. Had been previously 
recorded by Gerard in “ Herball,” 1597. 
*127.— Foxglove. About St. Albans.— Digitalis purpurea. 
*129.— Pupple-flowered Orpine. About St. Albans.— Sedum Telephium . 
*148.— Elecampane. It groweth plentifully in the fields on the left hand 
as you go from Dunstable to Puddle Hill.— Inula Helenium. 
118.— Ladies-Mantle. In Pray Wood, near St. Albans.— Alchemilla 
vulgaris. Had been previously recorded by Gerard in 1597. 
*130. — PeriwincFle. The [greater] groweth on the north-west side of St. 
Albans, under an hedge encompassing afield sometimesiu the occupa¬ 
tion of Mr. Pollard. —Vinca major. 
*191. — Saniele. Likewise by St. Albans under an hedge, that groweth 
between the Trench that went about old Yerulam, and the way 
Windridge. —Sanicula europcea. 
191. — Autumn Gentian, with Centaury Leaves. Also not far from St. 
Albans upon a piece of wast chalky ground, as you go out of Dunstable 
way towards Gorehamberry.— Gentiana Amarella. First recorded by 
Parkinson in the “ Theatrum,” 1640. 
*296.— Wall wort, Danewort. Ill-the Abbey Orchard at St. Albans.— 
Sambucus Ebulus. 
*305. — Quicken Tree. Amongst trees in the walk between Sliaford and 
Gorehamberry. —Pyrus Aucuparia, 
January, 1893, 
