346 Aster History; Bock 
Bock had unknowingly hit upon the real Aster Atticus, jide G. 
Bauhin (Pinax, 267); who pronounced the Aster Atticus of Dios 
corides and Fuchs to be the same with the Zinxctorius flos primus 
of Bock’s De stirpium libri tres; some three centuries later, this 
same Aster was given the synonym Aster tinctorius by Wallroth. 
Bock seems to have classed a number of Compositae together 
as a loosely conceived genus under the name TZixctorius flos ; like 
Dioscorides’ familiar practice of grouping plants with reference to 
properties, still strong with the brothers Bauhin a century later. 
Of Tinctorius flos primus we learn from Bock * the following: 
“Flos tinctorius primus, tinctorius spirensibus+ Schartenkraut 
dicitur”’ ; and again, ‘‘Hunc florem tinctorium vocat Tragus, et 
Chamaemelum tertium, et tinctoribus spirensibus Schartenkraut 
dicitur”’; 2. ¢., “the dyers at Speier call Aster, Schartenkraut” or 
Share-wort, 7. ¢., Inguinalis ; ‘and Bock calls it Tinctorius flos or 
his third Chamomile.” ¢ 
Bock's remaining species called Tinctorius flos, These include, 
2d, Erigeron acre L.,=Bock’s Tinctorius flos alter, the Conyza 
caerulea acris of C. Bauhin, the Amel/us montanus of Colonna.§ 
Gesner had called it Dentelaria, probably comparing the rays to 
little teeth. 
3d, /nula spiraeifolia L.?=Bock’s ‘‘ Tinctorius flos 3 ‘S the 
Jean Bauhin marginal citation * runs, otherwise appearing a8 
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dye plant, Rubia. But nomenclature does not favor this; madder is tbe Fe 
Krapp and die Farberréthe; and in time of Bock, its name (besides the Latin 
the modern form ‘ Klebenkraut.  aoly in- 
Bock’s species of Chamomilla or Chamaemelum—both forms were scene’ y 
different to him, or to his translator Kyber—include his C. vulgaris which 1s uF 
canthemum vulgare, his C. nobilis which is the Anthemis nobilis of more ae 
any, his C. fatua and his C. sylvestre which are the C. inodorum and C. foe 
Swamps, which others call Aster Conizoides,”’ 
SOUS Pease) 
