Fucus’ Astrer-FiGuRE 351 
Atticus in this rare and expensive volume may be sought in America 
in my own copy and in that at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where 
the Sturtevant collection of Prelinnaean botany contains a copy of 
this as well as of many of the subsequent reduced editions. In the 
small editions which followed, the figure was greatly diminished, 
finally evento only 2% inches inlength.* It may be seen, reduced, in 
the little edition of Basle, 1545 (figures only, without text), ex Ldris 
Colu., and in the edition of Leyden, 1551, ex /iér. Bu. This 
figure shows about a dozen heads terminating rather stiff upright 
branches, the whole piant double from its base, two stems rising 
together from the same mat of thickened fibers. A peculiarity is 
the presence near the base of the stronger stem of an irregular 
dense cluster of six or seven stem leaves, brought together by sup- 
Pression of internodes, a common abnormality, common especially in 
Aster, and scrupulously retained by copyists of Fuchs’ figure and 
SO serving as sign-manual of Fuchs’ original as it passed on almost 
to the present time by repetitions in Ryff’s Dioscorides, in Lonitzer's 
Kreuterbuch, in the Historia Plantarum of J. Bauhin and his editors 
as late as 1650, and perpetuated apparently even to the Ehrhart 
edition of Uffenbach’s Kreuterbuch of 1783. 
On the other hand it is not the figure of Matthioli, nor does it 
bear close relationship to those of Dodoens, Lobel, Gesner and 
Camerarius, Gerard or Parkinson, none of which, for example, 
Possess the mid-cauline rosette. 
Fuchs’ Aster description.—Fuchs’ chapter on Aster Atticus in 
_ Latin edition, the De historia plantarum (I quote from the edi- 
tion of 1542) occurs in its alphabetical place, p. 132,7 as chapter 
#7. Fuchs followed Brunfels’ plan of dividing each plant chapter 
mto topics, the topics printed as titles. I quote all except the 
“et under his heading “vires” or properties, which repeats 
Without change what Dioscorides, Pliny and Galen said of the 
ter’s Virtues, 
It will be observed that in his description under the head 
oma,” Fuchs makes the received identification of Dioscorides 
Aster for the first time 
*8 far as th, 
140 the Leyden edition of 1551, p. 139. 
