CRESCENZI’s ASTER-USES 299 
; ‘among authors, most of all, Dioscorides and Pliny ; guos maxime in 
simplicium historia sequitur. But it is also to be noticed that Sera- 
pion confused Aster Atticus or Bubonium with Eryngium, deceived 
by the similarity of its stars ; by which they imitate each other, and 
in their blue color; although the whole plant of the Bubonium 
has not one horrid spine on it.” 
CRESCENZI’S RELATION TO ASTER-USES 
Among potencies formerly credited to Aster, Crescenzi makes: 
the following recommendations : I use the Italian names adopted 
by Sansovino, 1561. 
| For aposteme (apostema of the Greeks), use Camomilla, Man- 
dragola, Mortella (quid est? Belladonna ?) Pianteggine or Lingua. 
d’Ariete (Plantago), Papaver, Loglio or Zizania (to this form 
Macer’s Lolium * had now come), Striggio ¢ or Solatro or Morella. 
and Viola. 
To confortan lo stomaco, Melagrane (pomegranate) Ella (Macer's. 
Elna, i. ¢., Inula Helenium L.), Gariofilata (Geum urbanum L.), 
Porcellana (purslane), and Vetrivola (Parietaria). 
Against serpents, Serpentaria or Colombaria or Dragontea 
(Arum), . 
Against a mad-dog’s bite, etc., Gentiana, and Cavolo (Macer’s. 
Caulis ; including our cabbage, which is Crescenzi’s variety Ca- 
puccio ;—he remarks “ Capuccio is of the nature of a Cavolo).” 
For quinsy, Celidonia, and Pianteggine (Plantago).} 
*Lolium temulentum ; of its fame as an intoxicant Crescenzi writes ‘‘ofpila la 
mente, la perturba, et l’inebbria’’ (Savsovino). ‘ 
t The Strignos of the Pavian Erbario, Strignum of Macer; chiefly So/anum nt- 
grum L., sometimes covering Atropa Belladonna L., and so here. 
; tPLants Conrusep witH AsTER.—Other plant names of Crescenzi (in Sanso- 
vino’s Italian form) of interest to the student of Asters include : ; 
Robbia (Rubba in his Latin) (Rubia) ; ch. 6, c. 104; free from the confusion with 
Aster which appeared later. 
Ella (—/nula Helenium) ‘bears its crowns not in summer bu 8 
Part of the month of October in grassy land.’’ ‘*Take it with wine, that a campagna, 
tia il dolor dello stomaco ; ‘L’Enule campane sanno i precordi sani’ "” (Macer’s. 
ne), 
t through the greater 
Gariofilata (Geum) ‘*is so called perhaps because it has an odor resembling that of 
Garofoli or according to the taste and effect.”’ 
Lingua d’Ariete or Pianteggine (Plantago); he ci 
mad dog’s bite ; says it is chiefly useful to dissipate tumor 
ites Dioscorides as using it for 
and posteme and quinsy ; SO 
