NaAMEs FOR ASTER ATTICUS 73 
HeErBA STELLARIA of some, Parkinson, 1640. 
HERBE DE L’ ESTOILLE, Fr. for Aster Atticus, Fuchs, 1551. 
HImMELSCHLUSSEL “is the name used by everybody at Passau 
for this flower [Aster Amellus L.]. It grew up a hill ina dry 
place on a grassy slope, at the edge of a meadow where we ought 
not to have gone in for it, because they were to cut the grass for 
the cows; so we had to go in when there was no one looking. It 
was on the border of woods. The plants grew a foot or two high, 
one flower at the top of a slender stalk. The color was blue, not 
very dark, just about like the sky, and that is why it is called Him- 
melschliissel, because it is of the blue of the heaven. Each flower 
has a yellow spot in the middle. The little blue leaves all about 
the yellow spot were a little broader than in the picture [ Martyn’s, 
colored]. There wasn’t any of it growing about home except 
that one place; and everybody knew that that was the place to go 
to, to pick it. We would wear it, and would keep it in the house 
in water. It blossomed at a very hot time in the summer ; per- 
haps in August. The year I was leaving home [1898] I heard 
the little children say they were going out to pick it.—There is 
but one other flower in Germany there [a Hieracium?], I can 
faintly remember, that is like it, I mean it has the same shape; it 
is pale yellow and grows up like the dandelion ; but it is not just 
like the dandelion, its stalk is more thin.—Sternkraut is a name I 
never heard, nor Megenkraut, nor Schartenkraut.” Bavaria. 
HyMMELSCHLUSSEL, name apparently intended for Aster Amellus 
L., and for Primula veris, by Hieromymus of Brunswick, c. 1490 ?, 
in Brunfels’ De vera, 190. 1531. 
HyoputHaLmon, or Latinized, Hyophthalmum, 5dgGaipor, D., 
(interpolation) ; so quoted by translators and commentators, but 
overlooked in dictionaries, even in Stephanus’ Thesaurus, even in- 
the Didot edition of 1865, until it was noticed by Coumanoude, 
appearing in his Greek Lexicon of Uncollected Words, from 
ancient and modern writings, Athens, 1883, as follows : 
“ 50¢0aipoc, plant also called Aster Atticus, in Latin Inguinalis, 
Apul. herb. 61.” 
The only copy of Apuleius accessible contains no synonyms 
whatever for its “61, Asterion,” @. ¢., “ Aster Atticus ;”’ but this 
may be the defect of the edition. 
