ANGUILLARA’S Owdsxapuvitec 377 
Anguillara’s chief contributions to knowledge of Aster were 
these : 
He had made search between 1520 and 1539 in Grecian lands 
for a plant to accord with Dioscorides’ description of Aster; al- 
though he does not seem to have happened upon the true plant, 
i. ¢., Aster Amellus L., which indeed he may never have seen at 
allanywhere. Search in Greece for Dioscorides’ plants in general 
had been made before by Simon de Cordo (Simon Januensis) about 
1250-1290; and afterward by Pierre Belon (Bellonius) 1549- 
1551, and later by Tournefort and by Sibthorp. 
He held to the correctness of the Greek MSS. as representing 
Dioscorides’ color-character for Aster, retaining the reading 7 
1. ¢., purple or yellow. 
He held Pallenis spinosa to be the true Aster, his Aster Atticus 
verus ; perhaps swerving (unintentionally?) at the end of his 
Aster article to include also a group of quick-closing Tragopogon 
Species which change from yellow to reddish-purple during blos- 
soming, which may have constituted his dwdexapetzes or “‘ twelve- 
Minute flower.”’ 
His may have been the first identification of Aster Atticus with 
; been included as part of an original multiform basis of Anguillara’s dwJexapeiri¢ of 
Zante, include the following : 
o— Tragopogon Cupani Gussone in DC., a handsome smooth purplish species reported 
fom Zante by Margot (Margot and Reuter s “lore de I’Ile de Zante, Geneva, 1841). 
ay Tragopogon majus Jacq., found by Sibthorp only in Zante, where he heard the 
a _ People calling it row Aayow ra yévera, 2. e., rabbit’ s-beard (literally, ‘‘ the bearded chin 
ete ””)$ a yellow-flowered smooth species, like the two next. i 
es Scorzonera graminifolia L. ; the Exopaovépa of Zante, Sibthorp ; perhaps meaning 
—  hera buphthalmoide DC., which Aucher collected later about Aleppo under 
emer 5. Sraminifolia L 
eer @ crocifolia, Sibthorp ; also called Zxopoovépa at Zante ; also found at 
nte by Margot. 
Add to these as probably seen by Anguillara and blended with the foregoing, 
oi Purpurea \.., a rose, purple or blue species, found producing bluish — 
rete by Tournefort and by Sibthorp. j 
y Scorzonera Cretica Willd., a ditelniees branching species found in Crete by 
_Mmefort and Sibthorp. : 
Storconera undulata Vahl, a violet species which Tournefort found in Greece. 
ia "era araneosa Sibthorp, a purple-flowered villous-leaved species of Ae 
mera hirsuta L., a yellow-flowered species with stem and waves often ais 
aus to be the Geropogon hirsutus of Smith's publication of Sibthorp, foun ; 
~ © ™ Cyprus, and identified by Smith with a reddish-flowered Tragopogon foun 
Tournefort in Greece, these plants often reddening with age. 
