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corides ; though it is not impossible that information from some 
of the public lectures by Cordus may have given Fuchs a sug- 
gestion that set him on the true path. Fuchs’ language, however, 
indicates personal knowledge, and his description of the continu- 
ance in bloom from August to October seems: to bea statement 
that is peculiar to himself. Perhaps Cordus and Fuchs may have 
both discovered the wild plant as early as 1539. 
In 1542, the year that Fuchs was publishing his great work, 
Cordus was travelling in Italy. There he spent a year in Padua, 
Ferrara and Bologna, then went to Florence, Pisa and Lucca, and 
finally to Rome, where he was taken ill, died and was buried, 
September, 1544, before completing his 30th year, though already 
taking rank, in estimation of Meyer, as one of the greatest botan- 
ists that Germany had produced. 
Posthumous works of Cordus included his Avnotations * on 
Dioscorides and his Historiae Stirpium.t In both he treated the 
Aster Atticus of Dioscorides as the species now known as Aster 
Amellus (fide C. Bauhin). 
Cordus also described, by the name Anthyllis minor, a plant, 
the Tripolium IIT of C. Bauhin, which was regarded by the latter 
as closely similar to the Aster Ti yipolium of modern botany. 
— Cordus’ second aster, Anthemis Tinctoria—Cordus and his 
editor Gesner indicate a perception that the ancient Greeks some- 
times included Buphthalmum in their Aster ; a probability which I 
have pointed out under Hippocrates’ plant polyophthalmon, Pp. iw : 
his appears in Cordus’ posthumously printed “ Fiistoria stir- 
pium” » written 1540,¢ but to which Gesner on printing itin I 561 
added figures from Bock and some fifty of his own. Among these 
added figures was one labeled Aster Atticus but really represent- 
ing a type commonly received for Buphthalmum in that century 
and which became later the Avthemis tinctoria L. Probably the 
figure Was one of those received by Gesner from Bock ; which 
* First published by Egenolph, at Frankfort, 1549, in the second edition he 
Dioscorides (ex di62. Colu.) and again with corrections, Strasburg, 1561, by Rihe - 
: t Written 1540, printed Strasburg, 1561, bound with the preceding, 4 ta 
Scribing ina masterly manner the plants of Germany. A fifth book described 25 plan 
* had observed in Italy (Rihel, at Strasburg, 1563; and again, in Schmiedel’s Gesner, 
with additions from a MS. of Gesner, Nuremberg, 1751)- 
Gesner remarks. 
