Hieronymus’ HIMMELSCHLUSSEL 333 
plants. It does not include any Aster by that name, but will be 
often referred to in these pages, for its descriptions and current 
names of a number of plants which were in that day often mistaken 
for Aster and by different writers were identified with the Aster 
Atticus of Dioscorides: as the plants then known as ‘Cliben- 
kraut or Rubea’” (madder), p. 187, ‘‘ Gundelred or Hedera terres- 
tris,” p. 189, ‘“ Mafis-trew or Iringus,” p. 193, “ Schélwurtz or 
Chelidonia,’ p. 197, ‘“Synnaw or Alchimilla,” p. 197; cf. also 
his “Lienenblum or Caprifolium” p. 192, his ‘ Leberkraut or 
Hepatica,” p. 192, his “ Epphew or Hedera,” p. 188, his “ Nachts- 
chatt or Solatrum,” p. 194, and especially his ‘“‘Waldtmeister or 
Matrisylva,” p. 198 (i. ¢., Aspergula).* 
Hieronymus of Brunswick may have intended Aster Amellus 
L. by his trae Himmedlschliissel ; judging from the application of 
the latter name to Aster Amellus in southern Bavaria ; vide p. 
73. He distinguishes between three plants for which the name 
Was used; one (undescribed; the Aster ?) to which he says it 
properly belonged; another, Bellis perennis L., the daisy, with 
white rays,—but white color, he says the true Himmelschliissel 
does not possess at all; and a third, ‘Primula veris, the cowslip, 
which is, he remarks, ‘‘ a very different flower altogether ; though 
Some misunderstanding seems to have arisen regarding this authorship. Meyer, 
ignoring the Apodixis and its title, states that Brunfels meant Bock by his term ** Hier- 
onymus Herbarius.’? The fact seems to be that ‘‘ Hieronymus Herbarius’’ was some- 
times used for either Bock of Zweibriichen, or for Hieronymus of Brunswick and Stras- 
burg. But when Brunfels wished to be specific he referred to the one autho 
onymus Tragus’’ and the second as ‘* Hieronymus Herbarius Argentoratus ”? or ** Hier- 
onymus Brunsvicensis ’’ or equivalent. He thus specifies the identity of the author * 
- Apodixis in its very title, as written by ‘* Hieronymus Herbarius Argentoratus, 
heb : 
“i Smyperaloniat ie: he Hieronymus of Strasburg and 
the title page of the Apodixis, 
oth 
Brunswick is indicated by my own copy, where on 
