106 Aster History; Hippocrates 
The only explanation probable for 5deAaipov if it was a word 
which really grew up among the Greeks, is that its use, as “ pig’s- 
eye,” suggested a smaller size of blossom than that of Bob gdahpoy, 
“ox-eye,’ with which the Aster was liable to confusion, and with 
which it was actually confounded, two thousand years later, by 
Anguillara, Matthioli, and many others. * 
But the more probable supposition is that bogbakpov was a mis- 
take in its very beginning, and never existed till some scribe en- 
ee a 
num ( Leontodon taraxacum L.) et alter caret lacte, quem vocant caudam porcinam.” 
—Similarly, Albertus, iv, 145, remarks, ‘‘ Ficus has milk ; so has esula ( Luphorbia) and 
all its kindred ; similarly also that kind of the endive which is called rostrum porcinum.” 
Again, Albertus, iii, 9, says ‘‘ Other plants are without a silique, as the endives, among 
a. 
for some uncertain plant of the dandelion kind, which he describes as that kind of wild 
endive which is without milk. Jessen when citing the next, makes no attempt to 
identify this, but remarks that it nowhere else occurs as name of a composite. 
auda porcina : seems to have been a frequent mediaeval name for Peucedanum ; 
Albertus Magnus uses it so twice, 
Cauda porcina ; Simon Januensis uses it as a name for his Milii solis, the Litho- 
Spermum officinale, 
* We find no other instance to indicate that the name ‘ pig’s-eye ’’ existed among 
the ancients; but it di i 
: on the margin in the codex Guelpherby- 
tianus, as Jessen remarks. «< Oculus porci’’ of Albertus Magnus is identified by Jessen a 
Tragopogon Porrifolius L. Albertus’ account states that it is the flower which is call 
S, growing in elevated and dry places near paths, having ‘‘ radicem de- 
it has a rather lofty stalk, and on i 
withering retains the same color. 
cover over the flower in a very b: 
of Seville, 596, who died 636 A. D 
Isidorus listed by Meyer, 
I think the name grew 
that he ever made use of this name oczlus porct. ee 
up in Germany, and that Albertus was here writing | - 
ealistic tone itself indicates. . 
