HERTFORDSHIRE NATURALISTS AND THEIR WORK. 
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Coles, Herbalist. ‘‘ Then the Lord took the Man, and put him 
into the Garden of Eden.” Gen. 2. 25. London, Printed by 
J. Streater, for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill, near 
the Royal Exchange, 1657. 
Collation of the pagination—• 
Title-page and introductory matter, [20], 1-63, 65 (i.e. 64), 
164-165, 116-126, 125-126, 129-132, 131-132, 135-161, 160-161, 
65-83, 78, 75, 86-160, 111-112, 131, 164 [recto and verso], 
164, 167, 166-206, 205-206,. 209-264, 269-282, 238 (i.e. 283), 
284-326, 237 (i.e. 327), 328-335, 335, 337-348, 347-348, 353, 
350-396, 1-31, 23 ( = 32), 33-66, 551-620, 620, 622, 627, 624- 
628, and 20 unnumbered pages. 
From this it will be seen how extremely difficult it is to refer 
a reader to the right page; there are, for instance, no less than 
three pages numbered 125, and as many 161; many are wholly 
wanting; and then, after getting to page 396, the printer calmly 
goes back to 1, follows that to 66, and thence makes a leap to 551. 
The author was born at Adderbury in Oxfordshire in 1626, and 
died in 1662, probably at Winchester: for some years he lived at 
Putney, and was engaged in work under the Bishop of Winchester. 
Anthony a Wood, in his ‘ Athense Oxonienses,’ speaks of his attain¬ 
ments as a Herbarist in unstinted praise. There is a smaller 
volume of his which saw the light the year before the issue of the 
‘Adam in Eden,’ namely, his ‘Art of Simpling,’ but I have not 
been able to examine it for this Address, the Banksian copy being 
reported “mislaid.” 
I now give the Hertfordshire stations and plants noted by Coles 
in ‘Adam in Eden,’ citing after the Latin name the English name 
employed by him; the pages must be used with care, as shown in 
the collation previously given. I have set against each entry the 
previous first record, which it will be seen varies in most cases. 
Diplotaxis tenuifolia , DC. “ The more common Wilde Rocket. 
Groweth very plentifully about the Abbey of St. Albans on every 
side, upon the W T als thereof, and divers other Wals thereabouts, 
that are of any standing, it being either the nature of the Mortar 
thereabouts to produce it, or else the seeds are carried upon them 
by the wind, or rather by Birds.” P. 37 after 396. 
Anticipates Coleman, 1843. 
Malva mo$chata, Linn. “ In the Fields also about St. Albans.” 
P. 126 (i.e. 162). 
Gerard is still the first record, 1597. 
Ilex Aquifolium, Linn. “ Prickly Holly. In the [county of] - 
Hartford.” P. 385. 
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