CAMERARIUs’ ASTERS 389 
Alpinus L., then under the name Aster Alticus caeruleus alpinus, 
showing leaf, floret and fruit separately, and showing a globular 
villous swelling just above the root, developing clustered leaves ; 
“hirsuta vesicula quae adnasci solet,” says Camerarius of this swell- 
ing and fascicle; it is a strong example of that suppression of 
internodes which is so very common in asters, with or without 
bulbous enlargement. Fuchs’ figure of Aster Amellus L., 1542, 
had shown the beginning of rosette formation of this kind. 
Camerarius’ three other Aster figures include two of Aster 
Atticus, retained from Matthioli (see p. 385) and one of some 
Congener labelled by Camerarius “Aster Atticus luteus,” fide 
Schmiedel, or in copy ex &16/, Columbia, ‘‘ Aster flore luteo, Stern- 
kraut mit gelden Blumen, Alpe.’ This was deemed by C. Bauhin 
to be his Aster luteus radice odora y which is Zuzla odora L. 
2. Camerarius’ Hortus medicus et Philosophicus, the title adding 
“with many new figures, and remarks on habitats, cultivation and 
plant philology ”»—F rankfort, 1588 (ex “ér. Greene). An appendix 
of “56 new figures” is usually added. Three Asters are described, 
P. 23, under these names ; Aster Atticus flore coeruleo : 
Aster Atticus luteus, latifolius et angustifolius (= Padlenis 
spinosa Cass.) : 
Aster Atticus repens Clusii (= Buphthalmum maritimum L.). 
Of the first mentioned, Aster Amellus L., Camerarius remarks : 
_ “in Franconia ad Rhenum copiose proveniens. Ejus duas habemus 
is differentias - qui maturius floret minus alte assurgit quam qui serius.’’ 
3. Camerarius’ Kreuterbuch, a translation of Matthioli into 
German, with many additions; Frankfort, 1590, folio, 465 foll.; 
"printed 1598, 1600, 1611. Seven Aster figures * are given, one 
Oe 
_ "These seven Aster figures of Camerarius continued to reappear, all or all but one, 
™ Works based on Camerarius for the next 150 years; as the followi 
Becher’ s Paradisus Medicinalis, Ulm, 1662 ; being the second part ‘* Phytologia,’’ 
f the German natural history in four books of this name Para- 
Which claims to treat of «all the animals, plants and minerals known to the 
itan school and to contain over 1200 figures; by Jn. Joachim Becher of 
. Cons Szascha's “* Kraeuterbuch,’’ Basle, 1678; a German translation of Matthioli’s 
~ lum, by Bernard Verzascha ; with figures of Camerarius throughout. 
‘ , 
- a is an enlarged edition of Verzascha, in German, by Theodor Ganges, 
son Ainger’s Theatrum Botanicum ; new edition, in German, by Friedrich Zwinger, 
4 the preceding ; enlarged to 1216 p.; Basle, 1744, folio. 
