68 Aster History 
special name of a star-like mark on the plate placed under the 
sacrificial cup, in the Greek communion-service. * 
Ancient Greek also used the further diminutive dorepioxeoy, “a 
little star, the boss, or knob on a helmet.” 
Astron, dotpov, Scarlatos’ Dict. of Mod. Gr., 1874; Rind’s 
do., 1876; “dotpov is the name we Greek people call the flower,” 
Attica, 1901; “dotpoy, a star, and a kind of flower, like daz pokou- 
jovdo,”’ Scarlatos, 1874; “dorpov, a star, masc., and Aster blume, 
fem.,”’ Kind, Dict., Mod. Gr. and Ger., Leips., 1876. 
AtTrRATIsus.—Avicenna’s name representing Aster Atticus after 
passing through transliteration into Arabic and again into Latin, 
Fuchs, in Brunfels’ De vera, 1531. 
Artrica Stexta, used for Aster Atticus by Marthioli, edn., 
1560; (in distinction from Stella for Alchemilla) and Pexa and 
Lobel, 1570. 
BALTOcRATES, fadtoxpdeyc, modern Greek name cited for 
Aster Atticus in Lezz, Botanik in alten Griechen und Romer, 469. 
Gotha, 1859.—If correctly cited it might have a meaning like the 
English “ Pond-beauty,” if from Byzantine Greek fdicy, a pool, 
and xodro¢, strength, power, glory.—Probably it has no connec- 
tion with Baltos, modern name of part of Aetolian Greece. An 
explanation offered is that Padcoxodryc is BdAtn + xparipos, “ the 
pool of the rock-basin,” Aéfica ; if so it may have been intended by 
the original Greek informant as specifying the locality, not as nam- 
ing the plant. 
Bosas.—From repute curative of inguinal buboes; C/usis, 
1564, found the Spaniards of Castile using the name for what he 
[and they ?] deemed to be Aster Atticus, and modern botany 
calls Pallenis spinosa Cassini. Bobas is cited as the Spanish name 
of Aster Atticus, by Lobel, 1576; J. Bauhin, 1650; Gerarde, 1597- 
Boos OPHTHALMON.—Early form of Boupthalmon, q. V5 
Diocles? Galen. 
Bovis ocuLum.—Hermolaus Barbarus ; see Oculus bovis, the 
more common form. 
Bousos.—** Joufos, muet,” is given as a modern Greek plant- 
name by Legrand, 1882; probably with no connection with the 
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* Lowndes, Mod. Gr. and Eng, Lexicon, Corfu, 1837. 
