24 Aster HISTORY 
repute regarding the identity of Vergil’s Amed/us ; and his hesita-_ 
tion was not as to whether or not it were an aster, but to which — 
of three species it should be assigned, whether to his S¢ed/a Attica 
Monspeliensium, his Aster Italorum luteum, or his Aster minor 
Norbonensium ; no one of which was really its true equivalent. 
All ace. writers seem to have agreed with Matthioli anil 
Bodaeus in identifying Vergil’s Amel/us with the Aster Atticus of 
Dioscorides, the Aster Amel/lus of Linnaeus, even a name L’ Aster 
de Virgile developing for it in French according to Fée; * who cites 
Jussieu and A. P. DeCandolle as agreeing in this identification. 
4 * Fée’s Flore de Virgile, in Charpentier’s Oeuvrés de Virgile, 4: 434. a 
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