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themum [probably C. segetum L. particularly]. The flower is surrounded by five 
or six narrow mucronate rigid and rather long leaflets, somewhat resembling a s¢e//a 
marina [starfish]. The stems are a foot, or three or four feet, hard, hirsute, covered 
wholly with oblong leaves like those of Lychnis or Verbascum salvifolia tenuior, pilose, 
alittle rigid, green, tinged with brown. The root is composed of scattered fibers. The 
juice is astringent, bitterish, not acrid, nor particularly unpleasant. The seed resem- 
bles that of Anthemis. It is mature in August, or in September in gardens of France, 
Belgium or Germany. For it does not occur in the country in those regions. The 
leaflets of the roe ret purplish underneath in certain localities; not purplish 
within as in Tripolium,’ 
2 (Lnula ee L. : (Pena and Lobel’s second Aster of 1570). ‘* Aster Italorum 
luteum fruticosum oleae folio Conisae facie,’’ Adv. 147; the name changed by Lobel 
Ods., 189, margin, to ‘* Aster luteus fruticosus’’ (so correcting the syntax). Pena 
and Lobel, 4dv. 147, say of it ‘It is very frequent not only in stony and dry places in 
Boutonnes (Bottonettus), and along the Monspelliac river Lanus at the bridge: [brief 
description follows]; with leaves of Olea Conisa or of Myrthu $s major, or eaee with 
habit and flower of Conisa ; yellow, and with pappus like Jacea [Senecio]. It is of un- 
certain use, It is uncertain if it can be the Amelus of Virgil. It seems indeed im- 
possible to maintain the opinion that it is the true Amelus or the Aster of Dioscorides.’’ 
This plant neg A appeared as an Aster as late as Scopoli, 1760, who called it 
Aster salicinus in his Flora Carniolica, Linnaeus had called it an Aster in his //ora 
Suecica, 1745; and so many writers before ; J. Bauhin and editors, 1650, still referring 
to it as deemed a kind of Aster Atticus [‘‘ quibusdam asteris attici genus,’’ /7/7s¢. 
1049], by some, though themselves classing it under Conyza; Tabernaemontanus in 
1588, calling it Buborium luteum, perpetuated in this other form the idea that it was 
the Aster Atticus or Bubonium of the ancients. A part of Tabernaemontanus’ Bubonium 
1760, as Aster Bubonium, and giving rise to the subgeneric name Bubonium used by 
De Candle: for this his largest section of Inula in his Prodromus, 1836. Scopoli 
Aster Bubonium is the Inula spiraeifolia L., non Lam., fide DC., but is Zula squar- 
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Lobel, Ods. 189, a to his ‘* Aster luteus fruticosus’’ a variety, without separate 
name but simply headed << varietas’’; remarking that the variety is ‘‘in all things the 
same with the yellow form except that mixed with the yellow flowers purplish ones 
occur; nor does it turn so to pappus within [7 pappos dehiscentibus] ; in locality and 
growth it is like Aster Lunariacfolius Narbonensis ( Aster acris L.) but larger. It aoe! 
in Provence and about Narbonne and in Lombardy; and in gardens in Belgium.”’ 
The Bauhins, Tournefort and Linnaeus make no mention of this variety. 
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* The same plant appears figured, Lobel’s Observationes, 188, the figure being sub- 
_ Stantially that used by Matthioli, 1563, and labelled by him ‘‘ Aster Atticus alter,” 
by Lobel here ‘* Aster Atticus,” with addition, p. 189, of properties from Dioscorides 
and Paulus Aegineta, both in Latin ee and with the usual citation of synonyms, 
including Bodas in Spain, probably derived from Clusius who found it current there in 
— and Oculus Christi at Sects which may have been derived from Lobel’s 
wn residence there prior to 1566, or from Clusius who was there 1550-1553; 
Rondelet and Pena who had long resided in that region. To both of these instructors 
of Lobel may be traced his name for it of ‘ Aster Monspelliensium ; Rondelet himself 
calls it Aster Atticus (Lobel, Ods., 664, publishing a posthumous fragment of Rondelet )- 
