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LoBEL AND Pena’s ASTERS 401 
Lobel’s botanical monuments are two, his Adversaria of 1570 
and his Odservationes * of 1 576, commonly printed together to 
form his “ Historia plantarum.” His first work was the St#irpinm 
Adversaria nova ; Purfoot’s London editions, dedicated to Queen 
Elizabeth, 1570, 1571, 1572; edition at Antwerp, 1576; then 
reissued under the changed title Dilucidae simplicium at London, 
1605, Leyden 1616, and F rankfort, 1651. Petrus Pena, his 
instructor at Narbonne, was joint author, according to the title 
page, his name preceding that of Lobel. There is no other indica- 
tion of their relative proportion of authorship, except that a pecu- 
liar and imperfect Latinity observable here, continues through all of 
Lobel’s works, and seems to indicate that though Pena may have 
gathered in southern France a large part of the materials, the final 
elaboration was due to Lobel. 
The Aster descriptions of Lobel and of Pena are as follows : 
1 (Pallenis spinosa, Cassini), “Aster sive Stella Attica Monspeliensium, aureo 
flore,”? Adv, 147. Translating the Latin, ‘‘ The name of Attic Star has arisen i 
from the flower, at least from the leaflets surrounding that in the manner of a star, as 
Dioscorides seems to have expressed it; no other plant of to-day can be more fitl $0 
designated than that called Aster Monspelliensium in that place, in the Norbonensian 
Tegion, a very familiar plant about the margins of meadows and brooks 
“* It produces a golden flower in summer, rounded but compressed, nor with as much 
of swelling roundness as that of Buphthalmum [ Anéhemis tinctoria L.] and Chrysan- 
* Lobel’s works, written wholly by himself, include, 
1. “ Plantarum... Historia’’ or “ Stirpium Observationes,’? Antwerp, 1576, 671 
P. and over 1,200 figures, mostly from Clusius or Dodoens, whose works were printed 
chiefly by the same publisher, Plantin. 
2. “* Kruydtboeck,’’ Plantin, Antwerp, 1581, 1306 p ; 562 figures, mostly from 
Clusius ; a Flemish translation of his preceding works, but on better paper and with 
Some of the figures improved and larger i 
‘ie Pisibviy fas in” Paint: 1581, the figures of the Kruydtboeck, without 
text ; cited throughout by Linnaeus, in his Species plantarum. 
4. ‘* Stirpium illustrationes,”’ a small posthumous work (without figures) of 211 
Pages (so Meyer; 170, Pritzel who did not include 41 unnumbered pages), edited by 
William How, and printed in Latin by Warren at London, 1655, from a rough and 
half-finished Latin MS., in which Lobel had begun, at instance of Lord Zouch, a com- 
Prehensive botanical treatise, but which How charged Parkinson (who had died 1650) 
with having purloined and withheld. Meyer praises Lobel’s preface as the first notice 
of the fact that « the plants which are found on mountain-tops are found in plains and 
depressed regions further north.’’ th 
t The 1570 edn. had 457 p. and 268 figures; the 1576 edn. and 1605 — d 
Same to p. 456, according to Dryander ; the 1576 edn. had but little addition, only 471 
P. in all; that of 1605 grew to 549 p. 
Meyer surmises, 4 : 158 +. 
