Potytypic ASTER 13 
Nature. They had been rewarded and had made discoveries. 
To Fuchs, at some time it would seem between his Annotationes 
in 1531 and the edition of his Historia Stirpium* in 1549, and 
to Bock, between his Dissertationes, also in 1531, and his Kreu- 
terbuch, which first appeared in 1539, there had come the per- 
ception that Nature has more than one species of Aster in store 
for the searcher. 
Bock in his Kreuterbuch described two + asters by that name, 
one of which, his Aster Atticus flore medio luteo, is represented by 
the yellow chamomile, Avacyclus aureus L., common in south- 
eastern Europe. The other, Bock’s Aster sed non Atticus, proved 
to be so different a plant as herb Paris, Paris guadrifolia. 
Bock had published his Kreuterbuch in 1539 without figures, 
but with very superior descriptions: a first edition now so rare 
that it is doubtful where a copy is to be found. It was three 
years later that Fuchs followed with the first figure of Aster A7tt- 
cus since the revival of learning; its reduced copy was labeled 
Aster Atticus purpureus in Fuchs’ edition of 1549 (figures only, 
the text being omitted; ex. bibl. Columbia). So he now termed 
his plant Aster Atticus purpureus, to make a distinction from an- 
other, the yellow species for}a time called Aster Atticus luteus 
Fuchsit, which became the /nuuda dysentericus of Linnaeus. 
Fuchs had probably been anticipated in recognition of a second 
species of Aster by Anguillara. This modest Italian, underesti- 
mated and abused by his countrymen, but inspired by a wonderful 
devotion to Nature, had spent years of travel and exploration 
in Greece seeking to find the plants of Dioscorides in their native 
soil. After returning to Italy he had been made in 1546 fora 
short time director of the botanical garden at Padua. Regarding 
Aster colors he had accepted the received and ancient text of 
Dioscorides as adopted in 1516 by Ruellius, denominating the 
flowers “ purple or yellow.’’ Dioscorides, if he used the expression 
or at all, probably meant that the flower could be called purple or 
yellow, according as it was designated from the rays or from the 
* Fuchs’ Historia ae tak Basle, 1542, and on 
+ Besides these, Bock described under the name pi netorius Flos, at least three other 
plants deemed Asters by bi successors, one of which was the true Aster Atticus 0 
Dioscorides (fide C. Bauhin) not recognized as such by Bock. 
