Potytypic ASTER 15 
Matthioli had hitherto recognized but one Aster. He had just 
published the fine 1560 Latin edition of his commentary, with his 
figure of the “true blue’’ Aster and with another of a plant * 
which he was proving had been wrongly called Aster. But now 
in 1561 another appears at Strasburg, the yellow Aster of An- 
guillara and of Gesner, and in his edition of 1563 Matthioli 
promptly inserts it, under the name Aster Atticus alter, with a figure 
which was often repeated, by Bodaeus for instance, as late as 1644. 
Meanwhile Clusius, making explorations in the same year, 
1563, in Spain, had discovered, as he judged, a wholly different 
Aster, his Aster Atticus supinus,+ which became afterwards known 
as Buphthalmum maritimum L., and later as Asteriscus maritimus, 
Moench. 
Lobel, so long the friend of Clusius, followed close behind 
him in similar discoveries. Sojourning in France, at Montpellier, 
before 1566, and at Narbonne in the years immediately following, 
he recognized a difference between the asters at the two places. 
One aster | at Montpellier had been the subject of observations 
by Clusius when studying plants there under Rondelet, in 1550. 
Two § at Narbonne may have been first pointed out to Lobel by 
his instructor at Narbonne, the otherwise little-known Petrus 
Pena. In 1570, when Pena and Lobel joined in publishing their 
Adversaria, they included in it five different asters. 
Finally, in 1576, when in the same yea: Clusius made a be- 
ginning of publication of his discoveries, and when Lobel repub- 
lished his Adversaria with its five || asters, and published two § other 
asters in his new Odservationes, the era of Aster as a genus of many 
* His Stellaria, our Alchemilla. 
7 Published in Clusius’ ‘‘ Rariorum . r Hi oS and in Lobel’s ‘ Stirpium 
ees a both printed at the Plantin pres Antwerp, 157 
as the Pallenis spinosa of Cassini Hush icte pornos a L. Clus 
sore: it in ak Aster Atticus primus flora aes in 1601 he republished it as pies 
us legitimus. Pena and Lobel in 1570 called it Aster, sive Stella Attica Mons- 
iain etc, 
ena and Lobel, Adversaria - 147 term these Aster [talorum and Aster minor 
Norbonensium, etc. The latter is Aster acris 
|| The three just noted and also their ‘ ites montanus duplex’’ and their ‘* Aster 
montanus alter’’; being forms of Zrz/a montana L. 
Lobel’s ‘* Aster Atticus supinus Clusii’’ and his ‘‘Aster conyzoides Gesneri ”’ 
z. €., respectively, Asteriscus maritimus Moench, and Buphthalmum grandiflorum L. 
