T6 ASTER HIstTory 
cially to Leucanthemum, but apparently sometimes with wider 
scope and covering Aster ; as Hermolaus Barbarus, 1492. 
OcuLus Curist1.—Lobvel, 1576, gives this as the Montpellier 
name for Aster Atticus; but intends the plant Pallenis, though 
misquoted as meaning Aster Amellus L. . 
OcuLus CHRISTI MINOR (/nula montana LL.) or Aster luteus, 
Dalechamp, 1587. 
OIL DE Curist (¢. ¢., Oculus Christi, in 1 550 current name of 
Pallenis spinosa at Montpellier, Fr.; see zxfra, under Anguillara) ; 
cited as French name for Aster Amellus L., Foster’s Encycl. Med. 
Dict., N. Y., 1890; but perhaps Pallenis was still intended. 
Petit Esparcourte, Fr. (see Aspergoutte), /. Bauhin, 1650. 
Petit Mucver (Convallaria and other plants are called Mug- 
uet). Fr. for Aster Atticus, Fuchs, 1551; J. Bauhin, 1650. 
Potton, Poly, zédeov, a doubtful plant, said to be Zeucrinm 
Polion L., famed from Hesiod onward, confused by Pliny with 
Aster Tripolium L. The xédeov ’Agpoditys, polion Veneris, of the 
Egyptian “Prophets” cited by Dioscorides’ interpolator, was 
Dioscorides’ Periclymenum, Lonicera Caprifolium L. 
POLYOPHTHALMON, zohogbahpov,—=the plant many-eyes ; occurs 
but once as a plant name, in Hippocrates, Art. 830, interpreted as _ 
being the fovebahnov of Diocles by Galen ; which it may have in- 
cluded ; but probably included also the Aster Atticus of Dioscorides, 
and may have been its synonym originally written where Sg Aad pov 
appears in the present existing MSS. See p. 73. zohvdogbaspor 
as an adjective, many-eyed, occurred in ancient Greek in literal 
sense though a rare word, as in Diodorus Sicuus, and in Pollux; 
its poetic equivalent zodvopuator is used of Argus by Lucian ; and 
in the sense of “ the vine bearing many buds,” codvogbakpor Gprehor 
occurs in the Geoponica, 5, 8, 1. Both words are listed as adjec- 
tives in use in modern Greek by Legrand, 1882, and Contopoulos, 
1868 ; but no existing plant-names from them are now known. 
Similar compounds included the datepobppatoc, of the Orphic 
Hy mns, Yuxtac bz’ date pobppacey dpernv, “the dusk of night 
with its starry eyes ;”” the modern xvavodPaiuor, blue-eyed, and 
rahavoppdrye, colloquial for blue-eyed ( Jannaris) : 
reek names in oebuahuoz 
have as a whole become rare or little- 
used. d¢@aipo- 
itself is lost in many parts of the Grecian region, 
