BRUNFELS’ GaryorHYLLoNn 341 
plant, followed by Brunfels’ own “ Judicium.” Life did not hold 
out to carry on this plan very far, and in the third or post- 
humous volume the shrinkage on each species is very manifest. 
The plants taken, some 2209, form a Strasburg flora, with additions 
from the more remote parts of the Rhineland and from the Hartz 
mountains. No figure or description of Aster occurs ; he did not 
live long enough to reach it. He twice figures the Stellaria of that 
day, (the Alchemilla), which many were identifying with Aster, an 
identification from which he carefully refrained. 
In his second volume the principal bulk is formed by a series 
of papers on the plants of the ancients by Leonicenus, Collinu- 
tius, Count von Neuenar, Manardi, etc., etc., among which Bock 
and Fuchs appear as authors for the first time. Brunfels entitles 
all “ De vera herbarum cognitione Appendix.’”’ I have frequent 
occasion to cite this neglected collection, calling it De vera. It is 
headed by an examination of Dioscorides’ plants by Brunfels him- 
self entitled Exegesis omnium simplicium Dioscoridis. 
Brunfels says of Aster Atticus, p. 29, in this Exegesis, “ De hac 
herba passim multos consului nec expiscari a quaquam valui quae 
non essent.”’ 
Brunfels Astericum. — Brunfels carefully distinguished from 
Aster, the umbellifer celled Astericum by the Romans, the Impera - 
toria of more modern botany ; and he accepted, om. 2, p. 18, the 
names Imperatoria and Astericum as equivalents, adding that As- 
tericum is not Meu.* 
Aster included in Garyophylion ?—Brunfels, 3: 5, may tee 3g 
have been thinking of Aster Amellus when he wrote that Hermo- 
laus, Barbarus and Marcellus Vergilius deemed that . eat 
plant could not be Garyophyllon because its flowers Bite blue 
(caerulea) do not agree. Of this plant Brunfels continues : ° Vid- 
imus nos inter hujusmodi Garyophyllos eo colore st sdicieed 
tes vulgari nomine Roemisch Negelin, etiamsi odore minus grato" ; 
PEW bce aes among the plants called Garyophylion [sev- 
€ral such had been discussed, Dianthus, Cheiranthus, etc. ] some 
of that blue color and occurring frequently, known by srg 
mon name of Roman Pinks [ Nailheads] although with less pleas- 
ant odor,” See p. 380. ee 
* Cf. J. Bauhin, Hist., 27 1044. 
