DiGEst OF ANCIENT DESCRIPTION ag 
The plant bears a star, Ortus, Gart der Gesundheit, Fuchs. 
Purple leaves in order and fashion like a starre.—Ly¢e. 
TIME OF FLOWERING 
It is a flower of the later’ season, and is seen when the 
meadows in the valley have been shorn, ¢onusis.—V. 
We had to pick them when no one was looking, because we 
ought not to have broken into the grass where they grew ; they 
were to mow it for the cows ; ’twas in very hot weather, along in 
summer, perhaps in August.—Savavia. 
Amello blooms at the last of summer or beginning of autumn ; 
as Vergil indicates in saying ‘‘ Tonsis in vallibus.”—MMatthioli. 
(Italian edn. of 1568.) 
Floret aetatis fine, aut principio autumni, ut Augusto mense et 
Septembri; durantque in magnam autumni partam ejus flores.— 
Dalechamp. 
It doth most commonly floure in August.—Zye. 
In the end of summer, when the fields are mowed.—Parkinson. 
Florens Augusto, semine matura Octobri.—/. Bauhin. 
It flowers in August or September and in mild seasons will 
often continue till the middle of November.—P. Jfiller, 1797. 
Fl. Aug. to Oct.—F/. Deutschland. 
CoLor OF FLOWERS 
The flower of Aster Atticus is purple or yellow [z. ¢., we may 
call it either, according as we are most impressed by the color of 
the rays or of the just opened disk]. zopgrpody 4 pajhevov, D, 
(codices) ; but the purpled part is the most esteemed, 7d zopguptfov 
tod a&vOove.—D 
The flower is golden in itself, aureus ipse, but the rays have 
the purple of the dark violet, violae purpura nigrae, V. 
The flower has a yellow spot in its center, and the leaves 
around it are blue, deep blue, like the heaven, and that’s why its 
name is Himmelschliissel.—Aavarza. 
They are blue or purple with yellow in the middle; like the 
cornflower, zJavo¢ dvOos, blue color, but not so dark—Aftica. 
Its flower is purple, purpureus flos, Co/umel/a, (who probably 
never saw the native plant and misunderstood his Vergil, applying 
‘“‘aureus”’ to the general effect of the plant, instead of the rays). 
