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The outer border of leaves being of a bluish purple color and 
the middle thrum of a brownish yellow.—/Parkinson, 1640. 
Violaceo aut albo, disco medio fulvo.—/. Bauhin, /. Ray. 
Disco in medio ex luteo fulvi coloris, cum petalis plurimis 
[12, 12, 10, 10, and 10 figured on § principal heads] purpuro- 
violaceis ambientibus.—Vorison, 1699. 
Violacea et lutea.—/Vees, 1832. 
Rays ‘‘ein sehr schones blau-violettes,’’ and ‘‘ sometimes with 
red rays.” —F7. Deutschland, Hallier’s revision. 
STEM AND BRANCHES 
Each little stem, jafdcov D, cauliculus Pliny, bears its blos- 
soms at the summit, é7 dxpov éyoy dvOec, D, in cacumine capitula, 
Pliny, in acumine, Ortzs. 
Amellus is an herb which forms a single tangled sod of roots 
and raises up a great forest of stalks, V. 
herba...uno ingentem tollit de cespite sylvam. 
Each little stem was slender and just had its flower at the top. 
—Sfavaria. 
Down at the ground many leaves, and then come up the 
sprays, two or three together sometimes, without any [large] 
leaf, and then at the top of the spray comes the flower, which has 
a large calyx.—AZtica. 
Our Amello is an herb which makes its stalks straight up from 
the root, “fa i gambi dalla radice diritti ;’—the stem is dark 
and purplish, and it gives birth to branches almost at the summit. 
—Matthioli. 
Herba ista caules ab radice mittit rectos, solidos, ac lignosos, 
colore fusco lutescente ; e quibus circa cacumen ramuli oriuntur, 
in quorum summitate flores spectantur.—Dalechamp. 
Sterrewurt hath a browne, hairie and wooddish stalke. At the 
top of the branches groweth three or foure shining floures.—Zye. 
Among which [leaves] riseth up an hairie stalke of a foote 
high, having at the top faire blew flowers.—Gerarde. 
It hath many woody, round and brittle stalkes rising from the 
roote about two foote high whereon are set without order to the 
toppes many leaves, and is divided into sundry branches bearing 
single flowers like marigold.—/arkinson. 
