390 Aster History: CAMERARIUS 
of “ Aster Atticus, Bubonium, Inguinalis” (= Aster Amellus L.). 
Aster Atticus secundus, Aster alius flore /uteo, Aster Atticus /uzeus, 
Aster Atticus peregrinus, Aster Atticus caeruleus alpinus and 
Aster Atticus mznor. 
Of these, all after the first (= Aster Amellus L.) were yellow- 
flowered species, chiefly of Buphthalmum ; except the two last, 
which represent Aster alpinus L. 
LAST APPEARANCES OF MONOTYPIC ASTER 
Rivius to Esrsart, Moranpi AND QuINcy, 1543-1783 
LA AVEL. RIVIVS 
In 1543 began the series of editions of Dioscorides from the 
celebrated printing house of Egenolph * in Frankfort, the inception 
of which according to Meyer rested with Egenolph himself, “ who 
called to his aid Walter Hermann Ryff, a physician born in Stras- 
burg but living in Mainz.” Ryff styles himself a disciple of Brun- 
fels, whom he calls ‘shi olim praeceptor charissimus.” Ryff 
made up his edition of Dioscorides by the use of Ruellius’ Latin 
translation, to which Egenolph added small figures reduced from 
Fuchs’ Historia of 1542, an act of literary piracy which was cause 
of bitter controversy + but without legal redress. Ryff added 
* Christian Egenolph, the Frankfort publisher, had printed in 1533 the Germee 
Gart der Gesundheit, edited by the Frankfort city-physician, Eucharius Rhodion oF 
Réslin, and with new figures mostly from nature and mostly ve 
with it the Distillierbuch of Hieronymus Braunschwig with about 200 figures; 
issuing two other editions of this later; see p. 322. ‘ 
+ Fuchs had already begun, in 1542, a controversy with Egenolph, blaming bim 
for what he called ‘crass errors’? in Eucharius Rhodion’s work of 1533- Now the 
boldness of Ryff and Egenolph in appropriating his figures roused Fuchs to @ ge 
n Rivi 
now and in the year following upon Egenolph. Rivius’ original dedication wa 
written in Sept., 1543, at Frankfort, and on the 12th of Feb., 1544, Fuchs finish j 
Tubingen the preface to his answer or Afo/ogia, loading even the title with invective, 
calling Rivius malicious, and veteratoris pessimus, the Latin title (see Pritzel, No. 3433) 
explaining that his object was ‘‘ to show how in the false fabric woven round the me : 
Di rides and recently issued from the printing house of Egenolph, many, 19 “ae 
nearly all, of the figures of plants had been meanly stolen from those figures cut 95, 
Fuchs’ own commentary,’’ the ‘* De stirpium historia.”’ 
This Apologia is an octavo of 11 leaves, printed by Isengrin at Basle, 15443 . 
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