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moment, since neither of them is the Tournesol. What, how- 
ever, does concern us is that Gesner was satisfied that one of 
Pliny’s plants, ‘ Heliotropium minus quod et Tricoccum cog- 
nominant’ must be distinct from either of those described by 
Dioscorides. With ‘ Tricoccon’ Gesner identified the plant in 
the Padua garden which, we learn from him, had been raised 
from seed sent from Crete. This plant, which Gesner, from hear- 
say, believed to be wild near Montpellier, he considered unworthy 
of cultivation. Nevertheless, as we learn from Schmiedel (Gesn. 
Op. Bot. i. t. 4, fig. 30), Gesner made a drawing of the Padua 
garden plant, which shows that this plant was a form differing 
only in the outline of its leaves from the Tournesol of Spain 
and Provence, figured by Clusius. 
figured as H. minus tricoccum the plant known ‘castellanis 
Tornesol narbonensibus Tornesola quae voces,’ he added, ‘a 
graeco nomine deductae videntur.’ In the same year L’Obel, 
writing alone, reverted to the view of Pinaeus, and published the 
same figure (Hist. Stirp. p. 133) as ‘ Heliotropium parvum, 
Diosc.; H. minus Clusii; Triccon [sic] Plin.; Advers. p. 101.’ 
The erroneous typography was corrected in 1581 to ‘ Tricoccon ’ 
(Ie. Stirp. p. 261). 
When, in 1586, Camerarius issued a revision of Mattioli’s Com- 
pendium of 1571 he replaced Maittioli’s figure of H. minus by 
Gesner’s portrait of the Cretan plant in the Padua garden (Epit. 
Matt. Diose. p. 1001), under the impression that it represented 
the tinctorial one of Narbonne. Two years later Camerarius had 
ascertained that the Languedoc plant also oceurred in Italy— 
near Tresolza and elsewhere in Emilia, at Ortona and elsewhere 
in the Abruzzo (Hort. Med. p. 73). In the 1611 edition of his 
text. (p. 487a), grows in Syria as y 
The pee Mie ae which is that of the plant raised at Padua 
from Cretan seed, represents with accuracy a form of the Tour- 
nesol which, as Camerarius has stated, ‘is plentiful about 
Aleppo 
Tournesol to H. tricocewm, and if Bauhin in 1596 (Phytopin. 
