342 Aster History; BRUNFELS 
Perhaps the resemblance which Matthioli remarked upon, of 
the odor of the root of Aster Amellus to a Dianthus blossom, had 
led to the inclusion of Aster Amellus under the name Garyophyl- 
lon, by herbalists of Brunfels’ time. See zvfra, under Anguillara. 
LXVIII. Bock 
Second of the ‘‘ Fathers of Botany,” and author of the first 
thorough-going survey of the plants of Germany, was Hieronymus 
Bock,* also known as Tragus, a man of a single book, different edi- 
tions of his Kreuterbuch + forming his life-work. 
Before these he had written once on the subject of Dioscorides’ 
plants at the request of Brunfels, whom Bock regarded as friend 
and master, and to whom Bock sent from Zweibrichen (Bipontium) 
on “the nones of March, 1531,” his “Opinions” on some 50 
plants, of which Aster was the ninth. Brunfels published these 
remarks, 1531, under the title ‘“‘ Dissertationes Hieronymt Tragi,” 
forming pages 156-165 of Brunfels’ ‘ De vera cognitione,” 
appended to fom. II of Brunfels’ “ Herbarum,’ and its printing 
completed by Joannes Schottus, at Strasburg, Feb. 14, 1532. 
Bock’s first expressions regarding Aster. 1 translate Bock’s 
remarks { concerning Aster, from the foregoing, p. 157 of Brun- 
fels’ edition of 1531-2. 
a 
* Hieronymus Bock, oe aan in —* Jerome Kidd; called by himself 
Tragus when he wrote in Latin t Heiderbach in the Zweibriicken; was 
destined for the cloister ; akiielod paseaiie. he studied medicine at a university, 
became school-master at Zweibriicken, and was, 1523-1532, superintendent of the 
garden of the prince Ludewig; then became silsioe of the Church of Hornbach in 
gau ; ‘‘here he preached the gospel, and also practised as a physician, 
tinued the free pursuit of his loved science, botany,’’ Meyer, 4: 305, etc. 
ock’s Mew Kreutterbuch, opseetind 1539. 
t Their Latin original reads 
‘* Herbae Stellariae. 
* Inguinalem Dioscoridis, (quod ego sciam) nusquam vidi ; licet flosculos et 
plant Stellae viderim. 
Qualis autem Diosco ridis, Plinii, aut Af ulei Aster sit, non video. N lari 
rm: ‘ 
stellis ornatur, vestitum, et Aparine setialin ; atque a tinctorum Rubiae sy 
quandam stelleam i specie et flore Caprifolio non dissimilem, 
caprifolium tenax, aut hamata, sed pinguis et lenis herba, quasi calam 
undique stellulis circumamicta. Est et alia herba [a yetive Galium] lignite 
omnino ferulacea, quae pari modo stellis vestitur, oblongis tamen, et gracilior 
nostra mulier 
foliolis, floribus flammeis atque candidis, sed muscosis et densis ; us 
cnlae vocant suo idiomate, Unser lyeben frawen wagstro. Putavi Dioscor 
Galli Lactuca et Endivia congeneres plantae sunt,’’ etc. 
