NAMES FoR ASTER ATTICUS 63 
apparens. Quum igitur profundius et sordidum factum fuerit, ... 
[treat it with] obducentibus pharmacis.”’ 
ASCARACON ( 7. ¢., Aster Atticon), a form of the name used by 
Serapion and by him identified with Centumcapita, and with Eryn- 
gium, cited by De Manlius, 170, as Ascaracon, but perhaps mis- 
printed, and doubtless intended for what Matthioli printed 1560 as 
“ Astaraticon, Arabic for Aster Atticus.”’ 
ASPERGOUTTE MENUE.—Fr. for Aster Atticus, Ryff, 1543 (see 
the next); Dodoens, 1554-1616, Lobel, 1576; Gerarde, 1597 (as 
Aspergoutte menne), 
ASPERGOUTTE MINEUR, the Fr. name for Aster Atticus, JZat- 
thioli, 1360; but perhaps only in actual use for Aspergula, which 
was by some confused with Aster Atticus. 
ASPROLOULOUDON, dazposoviovdoy ; literally white-flower; in 
application = daisy, and used chiefly of white-rayed compositae, but 
without excluding the similar species with colored rays ; and some- 
times used of Aster Amellus, fide Aztica and Scarlatos.* Only col- 
loquial. ‘‘ Daisies about Athens are of several colors, white and 
yellow, red and purple.” —A?rica. 
Variants are to zozpuioviovdoy, colloquial, meaning dunghill- 
daisy, 7. ¢., the waste-lands flower ; cited as equivalent of dozpolov- 
ovdov, by Scarlatos, 1874. 
Also, vezeodobiovdoy, flower of the bier, from vexpo¢ a corpse ; 
“used of whatever kind of flower is put around a dead body.” — 
Attica, (“In the streets of Athens to-day bodies of children are 
borne to the grave half buried in flowers,” and otherwise exposed 
to view, no coffin being used in this funeral procession.—Horton 
in Scribner's Mag., Feb., 1901). Jannizaris gives vexpodoviovdn, 
colloquial only, as equivalent of Eng. “‘ marigold”’ ; “but instead 
it means whatever flower was used. They are laid loose all about 
the body ; no special kind of flower, but more especially geranium 
leaves and plants and most of all basilikon, which has more smell 
than geranium even.”—A/fica, 1901. 
dazpokoovdoy is cited by Scarlatos as the common colloquial 
equivalent for the ancient Greek plant names dv@epic, dvfspov, 
duvbé mov, AevxdvOepov, nt enor, jodvOewor, xypdvOspov, ypvooxipy 
radhia; also apyspavy, docepiv [sic ;’Aocyp meant?] dotepta (z0a) 
ee peg 
* Modern Greek Lexicon by Scarlatos Byzantios ; Athens, 1874. 
