Manarpi’s Hersa Srezrza 339 
of Marcellus Vergilius’ translation and commentary on Dioscorides 
appeared in three books, 1519-1523, at Ferrara.* 
Manardi’s Herba Stella —Manardi was an early observer of the 
use of the name Herda Stella in Italy for Plantago Coronopus, the 
crowfoot-plantain of Europe. Some confusion with Aster Atticus 
seems to have grown up later, Jean Bauhin’s Historia in 1650 
citing Coronopus among the Stellarias liable to that confusion. 
Dioscorides, or his scholiasts, had mentioned Astrion, little star, 
daz~ov, as a synonym for his Coronopus, and Apuleius Platonicus 
had quoted Aster as a synonym for Plantago. Perhaps these 
synonyms led Manardus to his assertion that the Coronopus of 
the Greeks was the plant vu/go dicitur Herba stella as he puts it.t 
LXVI. CorNARIUS 
Janus Cornarius, by birth Hanbut or Hagenbut, issued a Latin 
translation of Dioscorides at Basle, 1529; called the Aster flowers 
purple or yellow ; and remarked on the fact that many herbalists of 
his time deemed the Aster Atticus of Dioscorides to be the Aspergula 
(Woodruff) which the Germans called Sternkraut. So also Ruel- 
lius observed, in 1536. The foundation for this erroneous identifi- 
cation lay in the star-like divergence of the narrow whorled stem- 
leaves of Aspergula (see pp. 63, 333, 338, 343; n.). See p. 390, 
under Riviuvs for notice of Cornarius’ controversial works. 
Ee PLN cutee tat mee ete ona 
*From notes printed at Ferrara, 1521, Brunfels published extracts, 1531, 
title “Io. Mainardi Ferrarien. ar nostri seculi clarissimi, Annotationes aliquo 
Simplicium, e scriptis ejus extractae.’? These extracts, under the running title rs 
“Censurae Io. Mainardi,”’ form pages 32-43 of Brunfels’ De vera. Others than Mar- 
cellus Vergilius fall under the lash of his censure; and the extracts end with one 
“De Turbith”? (cf. Aster Tripolium L.) under the se ie Repeens Messue per 
m his words « Coronopus in multis Italiae 
vernacular use of the name which might be due to its spreading cluster of leaves like a 
Star on the sea-sand. Gesn r (De hortis Germaniae, 1561 a ere Aegis 
verus, Herba stella tedeta™ Tabernaemontanus, 1588, calls os erbam Stellam 
ing 
ne nominant; sunt et Boe Stellariam nuncupent ;”” Ga? 
Writers the name Stellaria is used for ‘ Alchymilla,” and that Aster Atticus is also 
is 
Called Teting (Dodoens’ Polat 110. ) 
