TZ ; ASTER HISTORY 
GaRYOPHYLLON ; Lrunfels 3: 45 (1536), distinguishes Ist, the 
common Garyophyllon of Pavia and other parts of Italy (Dian- 
thus), and 2d, the common Garyophyllon also called Cheiri 
(Cheiranthus Cheiri), 3d, another Garyophyllon “ cerulea, . .. vul- 
gari nomine Roemisch Negelin, etiam si, odore minus grato.” 
The third may possibly include Aster. i: | 
GROIN-PLANT, the, name made for it by Riley when translating : 
Pliny, rendering Herba /nguinalis. 
HELENIuM.—Usually kept distinct from Aster, whether applied 
to elecampane or to other plants; but sometimes blended with it, 
as by Philip Miller, 1733, who writes ‘“‘ Aster ...It is also called 
Helenium of jdcog the Sun, or as others say, of Helena the 
Daughter-in-law of Priamus.” See A/ant and Ellend. 
Hersa Incurnauis, see /nguinalis. 
HERBA CHELIDONIA, Sammonicus, 693, ‘‘ Herba chelidoniae 
fertur cum melle mederi”’ [to be used for ulcers, etc.] may be in- 
tended for Aster Atticus or confused with it: as the Chelidonia 
minor was long claimed to represent Amellus ; see zfra, Vergil. 
So Sammonicus’ Chelidonia, line 764, used for ‘‘ Igni sacro,’’— 
q. v. See Matthioli, who observes that this “ small celandine’’ can- 
not, because a flower of the swallow’s coming in spring, be the Aster 
Amellus L.—Several swallow-songs are still current in Greece, as 
one which says “Wake up, Chelidon, wake up and say ‘Wake 
up little bush [plant of small celandine] and make your flower’” 
Altica, 1901. 
HeErBa PaRatysis; a name much used in the middle ages for — 
Primula, which was by some writers confused with Aster Atticus 
and with Amellus, and which was also called Hymmelschliissel in 
Germany (Afodixis, 1531). Aster may perhaps have been in- 
cluded (with Bellis perennis) in the “ Herba-Paralysis minor” of 
de Manliis, c. 1450, ‘“cuius flos similis Camomille est.’ The 
Herba Paralysis of Hermolaus Barbarus is Primula veris ; he uses 
Margaritum for Bellis. 
Herp STexta, a form for Stellaria, 7. e., Aster, and other plants- 
Herba Stella is a synonym cited by Dodoens, Pemptades, 109, for 
Plantago major L. Herba Stella is cited as a name common in — 
Ttaly for Plantago Coronopus Manardi, 152 3, Auguillara, 1565; 
Gesner, 1561 ; Dodoens, 1583 ; the Stella maris of Tabernaemon- 
tanus, 1588. 
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