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VINCENT’s ERYNGIUM, ETC. 298 
corides and Pliny.* Some of his more unusual citations are of 
special interest ; he quotes twice from the Dialogus de rerum causis 
of the early English traveller Adelard + of about 1100 ; and quotes 
Thomas de Cantiprato, whose ink was hardly dry. 
Vincent de Beauvais treats of plants in 828 chapters, some of 
which describe two or more plants and some none (as chapters 
like his De varietate fructuum) ; book X, 156 chapters, on “ herbs 
of the earth ;”’ XI, 171 ch., “herbs of the gardens and fields ;’’ XII, 
134 ch., “ seeds, grains, and fruits ;’’ XIII, 112 ch., “ trees ;”’ XIV, 
115 ch., “ cultivated and fruit-bearing trees ;’’ XV, 140 ch., “ fruits 
of trees and plant-juices.’’ He makes no mention of Aster by 
name, nor under the names herba inguinalis, ynguinalis or unguin- 
alis which were so soon to reappear in the Ortus. The nearest 
approach made to Aster is under Eryngium, book X, ch. 156,§ De 
ypoglossa et yringion. 
But it is doubtful, however, if anything in that chapter is really 
an importation from Aster: it is probable that the confusion be- 
tween Eryngium and Aster did not spread till Simon Januensis 
translated Serapion, about 1292. 
Other plants noticed by Vincent include his Absinthium, 
Arthemisia, Abrotanum, Gariofilatum, Butalmum, Camomilla, 
Coniza, Enula, etc. Etradith (= tetrahit). Sarcocolla est arboris 
spinosae gumma. TZyrdith, quoted from Plateario as root of a 
* Also Aristotle, Avicenna, Isidorus, Palladius, Cassius Felix, Macer Floridus and 
arro; rarely from Ipocras (Hippocrates), once from ‘‘ Euribasius’’ (Oribasius ); 
saac, Rhases 
Adelard —— ‘*one of the first Englishmen after Alfred the Great to con- 
cern himself with nature,”” Meyer. He travelled through Greece and the Orient. 
t He also quotes Haymo or Isaiam, page of Halberstadt, the friend of Rhabanus 
Maurus and scholar of Alcuin: from one Gulielmus de Conchis, who died in 1150, 
author of a work ‘* De naturis’’ ; from Heleatas a historian, whe died 1227 ; and 
often from a work he —— Herbarius, but which differs from the Herbarius or Aggre- 
gator shag which we now possess 
rie I Fase, italicizing the parts which repeat aster charact : 
: “ Dyase rgingi vel Yringion sive Nux- pe herba est eres is lines 0 
colore nea Virtus est illi naturaliter calida, ideoque bibita 
Urinam cit inflamationes ac fortiones stomachi solvit. Tpaticis prodest 
Sibus venenatis occurrit cum vino bibita. Meliusque potest id agere id ani ei semen 
Pastinacae. Denigue cathaplasmata et colle suspensa corpus limpidiat. 
