GESNER’S Five Aster SpEcIEs 363 
Other Asters of Gesner 
Gesner’s collections and printed works recognized perhaps five 
species of Aster, as then regarded ; as follows: 
1. Aster Atticus verus of Gesner’s De hortis Germaniae, 1561 ; 
=C. Bauhin’s Aster Atticus luteus Soliolis ad florem rigidis (Pinax, 
266) = Pallenis spinosa Cassini. 
2. Aster Atticus of Gesner’s De hortis, cited by C. Bauhin, Pinax, 
| 267, as synonym of his own Aster Atticus caeruleus vulgaris, 
| which is Aster Amellus L. 
3. Aster conyzoides Gesneri of Lobel, 1576, first printed as 
Conizoides in Gesner’s De hortis; = Buphthalmum grandiforum 
L.; already treated, Pp. 361-363. 
4. “Aster Atticus tertius, e sicca Thomae Pennei, Wolph.” 
With these words Schmiedel,* editing Gesner’s works in 1751, 
entitles a figure of a plant somewhat resembling Aster concolor, 
being fig. 46 in tabula 6, That is, this was one among the col- 
lection of figures which Gesner was making ready for his pro- 
jected universal history of plants,t and which passed into the 
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1650, as a second synonym for this Conyza marina; in 1623 it was the 7X. Chon- 
arilla bulbosa Cyriaca foliis angustifolius of C, Bauhin’s Pinax). 
ean Bauhin’s confusion of the Jasonia with the original Conizoides ( Buphthalmum 
sandifiorum L., ) seems to have led Bobart when completing, in 1699, Morison’s His- 
toria plantarum, to publish (2: 118) as Aster conyzoides Gesneri a plant, a relative of 
the Jasonia, with a new figure different from that of Jean Bauhin. Linnaeus, 1753, 
classed the plant of Morison as a variety y of his Erigeron tuberosum, now Jasonia tube 
rosa Cassini, 
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lished in 
By Tournefort, 1703 ( Corollarium, p. 50), it was called Asteroides alpina, cred 
"peated by Micheli in 1748 (in his posthumous Ca/a/. pl. horti Florentini, ce 
iy Targioni-Tozzetti : 12,t. 5). By Linnaeus, 1737 (Hortus Cliffort., 414) and by 
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» 1740 (Florae Leydensis, 170), it was placed in Buphthalmum, with a phrase- 
ediate Variations, merged it in his Buphthalmum salicifolium . BO cs 
“a isted. also in 1700 ( Znstitutiones), an Aster conysoides py NGS 
'* quotation from Besler in his Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 : considered by 
* Cesner; Opera Minin Nuremberg, 1751 (ex “ér. Bu. ). 
For the end ee Geschichte der Pics : into which these latter ai! — 
tote f ly to pass, Gesner had prepared over 1,500 plant-figures, chiefly pias Sik 
ome from Bock. Gesner’s sudden death came while he was engaged on a ace er 
cy The figures passed to Camerarius, who mingled them with his own and so pu 
