Dicest oF ANCIENT DESCRIPTION oie}: 
Radix tenuis, transversa jacet, a qua multa demittuntur fibrae, 
sapore amaro, nonnihil aromatico et calfaciente, quidam aiunt non- 
nihil caryophylli resipiente—/. Banhin and _/. Ray. 
Radix fibrosa est et vivax.—Morison. 
Radicem multifidam, odore non ingrato, et nonnihil caryo- 
phylli resipientem.— Dalechamp. 
LEAVES 
Its stem leaves are oblong, Szop7x7, and hairy, daséa, D, oblon- 
gus.—//iny. 
They are two or three in number [meaning in a rosette or oc- 
casional cauline swelling ?].—Aliny, Ortus Sanitatis. 
Many leaves down at the bottom, say three or four or more ;: 
and those leaves long, but not so long as a finger.—Aftica. 
Our native aster has its stem clothed, vestitus, with oblong 
and crowded leaves.—Fuchs. 
The leaves are longish, “lunghette,” like an olive leaf, but 
much smaller, hairy, inclining to be dark; those on the branches 
are much smaller.—Matthiolz. 
Folia profert oblonga, acuminata, oleae figura, minora tamen, 
hirsuta, aspera, nigricantia, subamaro sapore, in caule minora sunt. 
Dalechamp. 
The leaves be long, thicke, hairie, of a brown or swart greene 
colour.—Ly¢e. 
A kinde of Aster, that hath many small hairie leaves like the 
common greate Daisie.—Gerarde. 
Foliis amictos oblongis acuminatis, aspero et pilosis, interdum 
crenis paucis incisis.—/. Bauhin. 
Folia oblongiora, praesertim juxta cauliculos enata, dura quo- 
que et asperiuscula, latiuscula et obtusa.—Mortson. 
ACHENES 
The little seed of the rush oyotvo¢g pehayxoauopoc, bears a re- 
semblance to that of Asteriscus, only that this of the rush is 
more slender.— Theophrastus. 
The seeds are small, rather long, not much unlike that of 
chicory, or “ Intyba.”—Da/lechamp, /. Bauhin, J. Ray. 
The seeds are small, blacke, and flat, somewhat like unto hat 
tice [Lage Ee seed, Parkinson. 4 
