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Amellus L.) with Matthioli’s figure ; Aster Atticus supinus (= Buph- 
thalmum maritimum L.), with Clusius’ figure; and a third, his 
“‘lutet floris”’ of doubtful identity, regarded by C. Bauhin as same as 
Bauhin’s own Aster Atticus luteus VII (Pinax, 266), perhaps only an 
expansion of the idea that there must be a yellow species to match 
the purple one just described; and it may be from this fact, being 
not found in nature, that Dodoens fails to provide any figure for 
it. His description for it is rearranged from Pena and Lobel, 1570 
(see p. 403), and seems first introduced by Dodoens in 1574 into 
his Latin translation, fide C. Bauhin. 
Dodoens then follows with the synonyms for Aster Atticus, 
which he gives in the main as in the Cruydeboeck, adding two 
Spanish names, Bobas and Estrellada, and one French, Estoille ; 
omitting “‘in Vergil Flos Amellus,” and saying instead “ Putatur 
et is, qui purpurei est floris, a Virgilio Amellus nuncupati flos,’ 
concerning which he then quotes from the Georgics, concluding 
by adding the properties as given by Galen and then as given by 
Dioscorides. 
The 1616 edition of Dodoens’ Pemptades (ex libr. Bu. and ex 
bibl. N. Y. Bot. Garden) differs in regard to Aster only in the 
occurrence of the chapter (24) on pages 266-7 or one page 
forward. 
LXXXVII. Loser 
Matthias de L’Obel, Latinized as Lobelius and Anglicized as 
Lobel, youngest of the three great botanists of Flanders, was born 
in Lille (in French Flanders) 1538, studied before 1566 under 
Rondeletius * at Montpellier, botanized thence through southern 
France, pursued botanical studies at Narbonne with Peter Pena, 
then journeyed in upper Italy, Switzerland, Germany and England.* 
Becoming a practising physician at Antwerp, and then at Delft, he 
was called by William, Prince of Orange, to be his court physician 
in 1584; and was later in London, as “ Royal Botanographer ”’ to 
King James I.{ He died in 1616, aged 78, at Highgate, London, 
where he had lived for some years with a married daughter. 
*G, Rondelet, the French naturalist, 1 507-1566; author of ‘‘Animadversiones”’ 
on drugs, printed by Lobel, 1576. 
t According to Pulteney, he was in England in 1570 and there dedicated the (rare) 
first edition of his Adversaria to Queen Elizabeth in that year, finding a sponsor 1? 
Lord Zouch, and making additions to Lord Zouch’s garden at Hackney. 
} As appears in his edition of his Adversaria in 1605. 
