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indefinite background of shades behind Bock, who stands as 
sponsor for the Aster-lineage of Herb Paris in botanical literature. 
Bock describes Herb Paris as an Aster.—Take up Kyber’s Latin 
translation of Bock, and turn to his chapter on Aster; p. 307—8,* 
and we find an unmistakable figure of Paris guadrifolia, headed 
“ ‘dati, sed non Atticus, Wolffsbeer, oder Sternkraut, Diosc., bk. 4, 
€.115’’: that is, combining Dioscorides’ chapter on Aster Atticus, 
and Fuchs’ German name for it, with the common German name 
for Herb Paris,+ while yet distinguishing between them by the dis- 
claimer “ Aster, sed non Atticus’; under which latter name C. 
Bauhin indexed Bock’s plant in his Pinax.t 
Bock’s accompanying text is entitled “[chapter] 102, de Uva 
lupina seu Astere.’’ He then describes the appearance of the plant 
(Herb Paris), remarks that it is called Wolffsbeer and Sternkraut 
and that by some mudierculae it is called from its form, not only 
Sternkraut but Augenkraut, 7. ¢., ‘plant which looks like an 
eye.” Bock then adds its uses, taking them largely from Dios- 
corides on Aster Atticus, prescribing it like that for tumors in the 
groin, and for a sty on the eye. The next property seems to be 
due to confusion with the whitlow-wort, Paronychia, (sometimes 
confused under its name Unguinalia with the Aster under its name 
Inguinaria or Inguinalis) ; for Bock proceeds to remark, ‘‘ some 
Say, use it for abscess about the roots of nails.’ The next prop: 
erty is more uncertain in origin,—‘‘ Others say that the berries 
Produce sleep if eaten.’’ Bock closes by remarking : ‘‘ This plant 
Uva lupina is evidently, according to my judgment, an Aster; — 
hot that Aster Atticus which Dioscorides called asteriscus, asterion, 
bubonion, hyophthalmum, 7. ¢., suis oculus, herba inguinalis, 
Rathibia, and Alibium.”” The last name was an Arabic equivalent, 
already used by Matteo Silvatico and by Fuchs.§ 
Bock also describes Aster as Tinctorius Flos.—In another ned 
2 Sa te ae Sr ae 
* Here I quote from the copy ex /iér, E. L. Greene. a 
t Herba Paris was its name with Anguillara and Matthioli. 
tUnder Bauhin’s Solanum quadrifolium bacciferum ; clase 
because of its berry. 
Other wolf-names used by Bock were Lupinus for the Lupine, 
hop, as familiar still ; and Leuparia for an Aconitum, or Wall eben: 
becoming confused with that of Herb Paris among botanists of the perl petadcat 
Herb Paris appears in Fuchs, Valerius Cordus and Tabernaemontanus as an 
ing Herb Paris here 
Lupulus for the 
