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also retained them as distinct, but Linnaeus cited both of Bauhin’s names as synonyms 
for his Jnu/a montana. oe 1762, was still remarking that ‘‘in its calyx and its 
habit it is too close to the Ast 
6. (Buphthalmum grandi sion um L.) ‘Aster conyzoides Gesneri” of Ods. 188, 
where it is figured, ‘‘Aster conyzoides. Conyzoides Gesneri’’ 189, with description, 
already quoted, p. 361 
”. (Buphthalmum maritimum L., later known as Asteriscus maritimum Moench. ) 
‘* Aster atticus supinus clusii,’’ figured by this name Oés. 188, and described by the 
same name, 189, as ‘‘A plant which produces numerous rough-bristly din spread on 
the ground, given off from one root; it produces oblong hirsute leaves as of Lychnis 
or of Stella Attica, numerous and of a deeper green ; and a yellow flower as of Buph- 
thalmum or Chrysanthemum. Grows wild in certain places in Castile, according to 
8. (Jnula dysenterica L., \ater known as oe dysenterica Gaertner) ‘Aster 
Atticus luteus Fuchsii et perperam calamintha tertia’’ is oth sagen y Lobel, Ods. 187, 
over the figure of his Conyza media, “familiar plant”? as he goes on to say, “in Bel- 
gium, France, Italy and Germany.’’ Fuchs (as edn. i 51, p. 427) had by some mis- 
take coupled a figure of Inula dysenterica L. with the name and mck gp of his 
‘*Calaminthae tertium genus Galliae Calament aquatic, Mentastro simile.’’ 
Lobel's Chief Contribution to Aster-Knowledge 
He (including Pena’s work with his own) figured and described 
more species by the name of Aster than any one before him ; none 
of which, however, are now commonly classed under that genus. 
His descriptions contain but little borrowed matter, and show 
close and fond observation of plants in their native habitats,—s¢- 
diose observavimus, he says himself, Adv. 123. Throughout the 
Adversaria especially, written nearer to the time when Pena and 
Lobel were roaming the fields at Narbonne together, their Aster 
descriptions are redolent of the fresh fields, and are remarkable for 
their mention of exact localities, in which respect they stand as the 
pioneers in a new world, previous habitats, even in exact writers 
like Fuchs or Bock, being usually expressed in terms of national- 
ities. Valerius Cordus, Anguillara and Clusius had begun, how- 
ever, to do slightly what Pena and Lobel did very commonly in 
their Adversaria ; Lobel’s Observationes, being composed more of 
citations from the ancients, gave no such opportunity. 
His descriptions of Aster montanus hirsutus, etc., were the first 
for that plant, /uu/a montana L., that are known. 
His description and figure of “ Aster Atticus supinus” P- 
peared in the same year with those of Clusius, but were borrowed 
from the latter, Clusius’ figures being freely loaned to his friends. 
