NAMES FOR ASTER ATTICUS 79 
Stellaria Dalechampii was perhaps a Spergula, or Rubia; see 
p. 80. 
STELLULA (a translation of asterion and asteriscus), /o/n 
Lonitzer, 1543. 
STERNBLUME, Willdenow, etc., modern book name. 
STERNKRAUT, Gart, 1485; Fuchs, edn. 1551; in Fuchs, edn. 
1545, printed Braun Sternkraut, apparently for Blau Sternkraut. 
Sternkraut, Ryff, 1543, Matthiol, 1560, Adam Lonitzer, 1557, 
Lobel, 1576, J. Baulun, 1650. 
Klein Sternkraut (A. Alpinus) Camerartus, 1586 ? 
Berg Sternkraut weiblein (/mula montana L.) Tabernae- 
montanus, 1588; his Berg Sternkraut mannlein (= Brittanica, /. 
Baujin) being not different, Linnaeus. 
Sternkraut was also used for Aspergula, Cornarius, 1529; 
for Herb Paris, Bock, 1536. 
STERRECRUYT, Flemish, Dodoens, 1554-1616, /. Bauhin, 1650. 
Tincrorius FLos 1, Bock’s name, 1536, for purple Aster 
Atticus. 
Trivotium, Pliny, tpedhov D., = Aster Tripolium L., and of 
Dodoens, etc. 
Tursitu, Arabic name for Aster Tripolium, so used by 
Serapion ; by Tournefort used as name of a genus including 
Thapsia garganica L., Odgica D. 
TurPeruum, Arabic, name originally of some wholly different 
root, was substituted for the preceding, and became greatly con- 
fused ; Leonicenus devoting himself to clearing its application, and 
Matthioli to exposing errors of Brasavola, Mainardi, Collenucio, 
Fuchs, etc., regarding it. 
UneuiniAis, Gart, 1485, see Inguinalis ; sometimes confused 
with Unguinaria or Unguinalis—a name for Parietaria, from its use 
ad unguen, whence the old name Whitlow-wort. 
VIOLA puRPUREA ; Aster Atticus seems to have been by some 
called ov, or Purple Violet ; and to have been blended in med- 
ical repute with Viola odorata in the Viola purpurea of Pliny, of the 
Secres de Salerno, Arnald de Villanova, Matthioli, etc. See infra, 
under Dioscorides and Arnald. 
VERGIL’s STERNBLUME, Willdenow. 
Wacstrow, Ger., /. Bauhin, 1650. 
