Fucus’ Azsivu 349 
cus of the ancients with the plant which was since known as Aster 
Amellus L. Hermolaus Barbarus had taken it to be the Stellaria 
of that time, which we now know as A/chemilla ; Ruel and at first 
Fuchs had let it pass as such ; but between 1532 and 1542 Fuchs 
had made a more careful reading of Dioscorides’ deseription, per- 
ceiving his Aster Atticus could not be Alchemilla, that no star- 
like leaves would meet the conditions, and that purple or blue rays 
around a yellow center with hairy oblong stem-leaves and woody 
little stem must all be combined in the plant meant. Such a plant 
he found among the wild plants of Germany,* apparently at the 
time known to him by no German name ; identifying it with Aster 
Atticus he called it Sternkraut or the star plant, and Sternkraut 
has ever since remained the forma! name in German for the flower. 
Fuchs early distinguishes Aster from Eryngium.—Fuchs’ first 
work, his Annotationes on Dioscorides, appeared 1531-2 as an 
appendix to Tom. II of Brunfels’ Novi Herbarit. Its last chapter, 
No, 34 (P. 155 of the “ De vera cognitione), is devoted to Alidium, 
Arabic name for Aster Atticus as ‘Fuchs claims, attacking the 
identification by Matthaeus Sylvaticus of Alibium as Eryngium ; 
under which author find the passage of Fuchs quoted, p. 304. 
Uchs then continues : 
“Annotandum tamen, eandem herbam alio nomine a nostris 
appellari Stellaria, e positura et forma, quibus stellae modo 
radiata,” alluding to the common identification then current of 
Aster with Alchemilla. 
Fuchs follows with quotations about Aster from Paulus 
Aegineta and Dioscorides, but adds nothing new; except this 
Temark : 
6 “ Praeterea non praeter eundem, quod apud Avicenna secundo 
“ “ap. 17 falso scribatur Atratisus, pro Aster Atticus, ita fere 
Mnia herbarum nom} nt.” 
omina apud eundem corrupta sunt. 
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to M, © was professor of medicine at Ingolstadt ; in 1528 he became court-physician 
oe George von Brandenburg at Anspach, where he remained five years 2 
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idenrie cally Valerius Cordus first made it known to Fuchs; Cordus made the 
cation, Perhaps in 1539. 
