Rivius’ Aster DeEscrIPTion 391 
notes which were also only in part his own, large portions being 
taken verbatim from Fuchs. The figures number 595. The 
figure of Aster Atticus was itself such a reduction of Fuchs’ large 
original, of 1542. This reduction was quickly reproduced by 
Fuchs’ own printers in the smaller editions of Fuchs’ Historia, as 
of 1545 (ex di6/. Colu.) and 1551 (ex didr. Bu.). Ryff’s figure of 
Aster, 1543, was about 4 \% x 2 inches, with about 5 heads; in my 
own copy uncolored ; in that of Prof. E. L. Greene, the figures had 
been all rudely hand-colored, the Aster rays being a purplish 
violet around a yellow disk.* 
Comparing the text of Rivius’ notes on Aster to observe his 
slight changes from Fuchs, we find that Rivius’ first section, his 
“ Nomina,” is different ; it reads as follows: 
“Graece dorinp drtais, Sov8dvop. Latiné, aster Atticus, in- 
guinalis. Officinis inusitata. Germanis Sternkraut, Klein meger- 
kraut. Gallis Aspergoutte menue dicitur.” 
Rivius’ Explicatio which follows, seven lines, is almost word 
for word that of Fuchs, regarding the source of the names, from 
“Asteris nomen” to “dicta est’’; then Rivius adds ‘ Germanis 
Bruchkrautt, qui ad herniam puerorum utuntur.”’ 
Fuchs’ “ Forma’ is then almost entirely omitted, Rivius con- 
tinuing with: 
‘*Flores fert, aut luteos aut purpureos.’’ 
Copy is in the Dresden library. Fuchs’ second attack, on Egenolph 1545, was a 
similar brochure, « Responsto’’ of Fuchs against ‘‘ the mendacious calumnies, unworthy 
of a Christian man, uttered by that Christianus Egenolphus,’’ etc.; who buying up 
every copy of the pamphlet, Fuchs was out with another issue in Aug., 1545. 
Cornarius, praised b Rivius, meanwhile took up the side of Rivius in this contro- 
wetsy with Fuchs and published in March, 1545, at Egenolph’s house in Frankfort, a 
little Pamphlet of 19 leaves attacking Fuchs by name, styling the pamphlet ‘‘ Vie/pecula 
*x¢oriata.’? Fuchs responded in a similar pamphlet ‘‘ Cornarrius furens’’ (Basle, 
1545) 5 itis to be observed that the only copy known (in 4747. Vienna) breaks off at the 
Z Cornarius quickly replied in another pamphlet, Aug., 1545, ‘* Mitra ac 
Brabyla Pro Vulpecula,” etc., adding in the title itself that the nitre was to be 
€ More Cornarius amused himself with a third squib, purporting to give the end of 
Fuchs, “ Vulpecula Catastrophe’? (Egenolph, 1546) and issued his three diatribes 
together as <* Fuchseides I1].”? We regret that this acute commentator on Dioscorides 
(see P+ 339) should have spent his last years in raising such unworthy monuments to 
own memory, 
* The 1543 edition of Ryff seems rare, at least Meyer complains that he could not 
obtain a copy, though he did of th itions of 1545 and 1549: in which last Ryft’s 
mime appears changed to Rivius, and the figures increased to 786 (ex 4i8/. Colu.). 
