HERMOLAus’ S7Ezz4A. 335 
1493, eminent in affairs of state, “ patriarcha Aguilegiensis,’ a 
scholar fired with intense ardor for the acquisition of knowledge. 
Fermolaus’ Aster.—He was first, first of the greater names at 
least, to identify the Aster Atticus of Dioscorides with A/chemilla 
or Lady’s-mantle, an error against which Matthioli was yet doing 
battle eighty years after Hermolaus’ death. Where Hermolaus 
writes of Aster Atticus, Corol. lib. 4, corol. 734, his phrase is 
“vulgo Stella dictus”’; Stella, of which Jean Bauhin’s Historia * 
remarks “ Pedem leonis et Alchimilla+ vocamus.” 
In short, Hermolaus was more of a philologist than a botanist ; 
was interested more in the names of plants than in their descrip- 
tions ; otherwise the Alchemilla’s current name Ste//aria could 
not have led him to identify it with the Aster Atticus of Dioscori- 
des in disregard of the purple daisy-like flower heads specified by 
the Greek description. . 
Hermolaus’ Buphthalmum or Herba paralysis —Hermolaus Bar- 
barus (cited in Brunfels, 3: 8) may have had Aster and Leucan- 
themum, or possibly other daisy-like flowers, in mind in his name 
Buphthalmum, when discussing the various plants called Herba 
Paralysis, —“ laudatur ad paralysim, a quo et nomen ;”’ including 
Primula veris, Bellis perennis, a plant called Paradel { and one 
committed knowledge to me, me to knowledge !’’ (Quoted in book 12 and last of the 
el ae ¢s of Politianus and others,’’ Strasburg, 1513; and, in 
21.) But stricken down in a few days with the plague, uel ‘sk iaiowsl 
near Rome, when only gt in ae 1493. 
* vag gran 
cantha or Calcitrena, Paidict: and a Rubia; concluding safely, 5: 
rm 
17; Lilium, do. 8 ; Nasturtium, do. 73; 
4; Sola 5 do. 305 as ’ . 
Betonica, pp. 89-90, bie Pay (cowslip) 97-8, herba Fumaria, 100 ; Asarum 7 
ontiu: um 64-6, A Arum 57 : 
t “Flos, qui quonium a hese conspicuus est, Paradelos ee dicitur ; 
¢tiam non admodum diversa, nisi quod serratum est huic, non Paralysi. 
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