344 Aster History; Bock 
Bock's Kreutterbuch.—Bock’s continued studies of the Rhine- 
land plants presently resulted in the production of his great Ger- 
man work, his Kreutterbuch or Herbal, the work which has given 
him an enduring name, and which was‘first printed * at Strasburg 
in 1539, without figures, describing about 319 plants. A second } 
edition, 1546, figured 365 plants, a third in 1551 figured 437-4 
Inatranslation § into Latin as Bock’s “De Stirpium ... Libri tres”? it 
appeared again the next year, 1552. Many subsequent editions of 
the German followed, down to Glaser’s Strasburg edition of 
1630. 
Bock’s Kreutterbuch is devoted to the plants of Germany and 
names no plant which he had not himself seen. He remained 
unfortunate, however, in his attempts to identify Aster Atticus, still 
striking out in different directions, and finally settling down on 
his ‘‘ Uva lupina.”’ 
Blending of Aster Atticus with Herb Paris.—One of the 
most singular errors made in attempting to determine the plants 
of Dioscorides, was that by which the radiating ray-flowers of 
Aster were confused with the radiating circle of leaves of Paris 
quadrifolia. One Golius is cited as stating the existence of this 
belief, fide Bauhin’s Historia, 2: 1044, “‘ Theoph. Golius in Onom, 
—Asterem Atticum ab aliis vvam Lupinam vocari tradit ;"’ Bauhin 
adding “Aster quidam dicunt, sed non Atticum multi he 
“Golius states that Aster Atticus by some is called Wolf-berry 
(7. ¢., Herb Paris). Many do say that it is some certain kind of 
Aster, but not Aster Atticus.” The persons meant by aliis and 
by multi above, are to me obscure. They may pass 4 the 
* A rare folio of 262 leaves, entitled ‘* New Kreutterbuch,” in 319 chapters * 
copy was once seen by Pritzel in bibl. Goettingen. : 
T Meyer possessed the 2d and 3d edition, which drop the word New from the title, 
but retain the dialectic repetition of the 4. These and many subsequent editions *T 
folios similar in appearance, printed at Strasburg by Rihel, the 2d in 2 parts, with 35° 
chapters, 354 leaves, and figuring 365 plants. 
{ Adding to the 2d edition a 3d part with 72 figures ‘* by a youn 
g burgher’s = 
of Strasburg, David Kandel by name.’’ Msny figures were derived from Fuc 
a, 
1542 Histori 
4 The 1552 Latin edition, derived from the 1551 edition, printed like the Ss 
g a 
a 
by Rihel at Strasburg. The translation was made with Bock’s approval by you? 
Kyber, who died the next year of the plague, aged only 28, just as — 
Lexicon ret herbariae, was issued from the press by Rihel 
