OcuLus CHRISTI AND OcuLus ConsULIS 379 
version, ‘‘ Aster 10..., another sort, that hath snipes stalkes, flowers and rootes like the 
ninth, but never wee to the height of one cubite. And the mother stalke and 
flower doth never growe so high as hir aides [but Sie — lesse ; [like] Herda 
Impia so called, for hee the children do overgrowe their pare 
pea RES ed ie 1 Be we cere © 
Plants called by the name Oculus Christi included a number of yellow-flowered 
eo ” as the following : 
: . Tragopogon ? or Pallenis? by Matteo Silvatico ; ae as Aisa 375;R. : probably 
; same a was meant by his predecessor Salern t 1167, who recommended 
(see supra, p. 224) the Oculus Christi for sine | end and for morsus canis, as 
the Greeks a recommended Aster 
allenis spinosa Cass. Clastis found the name used for this plant by people 
Montpellier in ova France when he was living there in 1553. (Rariorum 
ag bk, IV I.) peated: s Historia cuniat 1587, still so uses it. 
3. Lnula Peg ee Das and Austrian yellow-flowered species of 
: say. Bauhin, 1650, said ‘* Gauls Christ similis si non ew? (Hist. pl., 2: 1047) 
and on which Linnaeus conferred the name specifically ; known as ayptoaxapey in 
Greece, Sibthorp 
4. Aster wipuiseas Hore luteo, etc., of J. Bauhin, 1650, who says it is the Oculu 
Christi of many and is the Oculus Christi minor of Dalechamp, 1587. Pestinps i it 
Pee. several species of Inula. 
5. Salvia pratensis L., the ‘* Horminum ae Wilde Clarie or Oculus 
Christi”? i“ Genet (Herbal, 628. 1597) 0 its name he says to its efficacy in 
clearing the eyes. Parkinson was still HUE it under the same names in 1640 
( Theatrum Saree um, pies Cu woah: in 1653, after a akties of his ‘‘ Clary or 
‘More properly Clear-eye,’’ adds, ‘* Wild Clary is most fehonctaly called Christ’s 
Eye, because it cures diseases of the eye.’’ Salmon, in his New Dispensatory, 1682, 
had dropped the latter name, retaining Clary and Horminum, and introducing Sclarea. 
Manlio, about 1450, gives the name as a synonym ied the second kind of 
his Saxifragia : ‘* Minor vero dicitur, quod est Ocu/us Christi.’ 
ib * Needed Coronaria i, nis Coronaria of Lonitzer, Dodoens, eee 
it. N, Y., 1890 ; perhaps an entry which should have bases credited to Pallenis. 
P, lants called Oculus Consults. re Tragopogon, fide its interpretation by Jes- 
== 88 occurring in a MS. of ardis stating that the name Oce/us Consulis 
is found there written, in the codex Oubuate of Hildegardis Lier Su 
Written about 1180, as a mediaeval marginal synonym for the plant named in h 
_ &S Fridelsouge or Fridelsauga (perhaps pig’s-eye, or literally se nae s eye, aga 
allied to Mid . H. G. vihe, beast; or bold-eye, from Mid. H. G. vrevel, bold- 
: The plant also appears under the name /’rededs cies or Vredels oghe in the 
Vocab, Simplicium, and as Oculus porci and Flos campi in Albertus Magnus’ Pe 
- peabilibus » bk. VI, c. 404, written before 1256 (see edn. Meyer and Jessen, 547, 
: : 1867), Albert there remarking ‘‘a porcis in pastum effoditur ; et habet stipitem 
Perum al um, in cujus supremo est flos rutilans ipso multum, et exsiccatus retinet 
cloner, see p. 276. See p. 316 for Conrad von Megenberg’s eulogy of it as 
about 14503 3 all shee occurrences a ional meaning ies 
