412 Aster History: Ciusius 
Summary of Clusius’ Works 
Translation into French, from Flemish, of Dodoens’ Cruydeboeck, its 22 edn.; 1557. 
LL acngoumnase into Latin 
Oo a ab facta on Sfices of India; from ape rae 3 157M. 
Curccples a Costa on Spices of India ; from Span 
Monardes on Aemedies from the West Indies ; from ‘Segal ; 1574, parts I and 
I; 1582, part III ; often reprinted. 
Monardes, Briefer writings, 1605. 
Belon, — in Saetsee and the pons 1589; from the dieu of 1554. 
Belon, ‘‘ De neglecta, stirpium cultura ;’’ 1589; from the French of 1558. 
Original aria (or acl original); Latin, and from the Plantin press, except the 
Petit Recueil, 35 pages of descriptions of remarkable plant-products, 1557. 
Rariorum stirpium per Hispanias, 1576, 529 p 
Raviorum stirpium per Pannoniam, £583, 766 
Rariorum plantarum historia (combination and rearrangement of the pre- 
ceding), 1601, 7:2 
Exoticorum Yibri decem, etc., 1605. 
ae posteriores, 1611, 
Saad. 1830. 
Clusius’ Chief Contributions to the Knowledge of Aster.--He pub- 
lished 16 different species which went for a time under the name 
Aster, half of which he described as Asters himself. Only two of 
them remain in Aster now, Aster Amellus L., and A. alpinus L. 
He was the first to give a clear and recognizable description 
for Aster alpinus L., and he gave it that name which it still bears, 
calling it in 1583 Amedlus alpinus, and in 1601 Aster alpinus 
coeruleo flore vel 7. 
He was the first to publish clear and definite descriptions for a 
number of plants, new Asters so-called then and long afterward, 
which made a considerable part of the Linnean genus Inula. 
His figures of his Asters, freely used by his publisher in works 
of others, and often copied, show great skill in catching and repro- 
ducing the essential in the habit of the plants. 
He was fully alive to the compiexity of the: Aster group; 
perhaps none but Gesner before him had really felt it, until Lobel, 
who perceived it probably chiefly as a result of his older friend 
Clusius’ activities. Clusius begins his Asters in the résumé of 
1601,* with “Asteris non parva est varietas; nam in meis 
perigrinationibus observatae mihi sunt elegantes quaedam plantae, 
quae ad illius genera referri posse videntur.”’ 
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* Rariorum historia, book LV, c. vii, p. xii. 
