Criusius’ AsTER NAMES 413 
He was the most pronounced example that botany had yet 
known, of the method of alternate exploration, personal field-work 
alternating with periods occupied by working up and publishing his 
discoveries. 
He tried to collect the vernacular names for his Asters ; with 
the following results: * “My first species, Aster Atticus legitimus, 
[= Pallenis], was called Oculus Christi in the Monspellian land 
when I was living there (1550); and in Spain (1564), Bobas, which I 
Suppose derived from Bubonium, because they heal inguinal 
tumors with it, there called dodas ; whence also the Latin name 
/nguinalis, For the rest of the kinds I have never known any 
common name in the places where they grow, among the inhabi- 
tants. 
* Rariorum historia, book IV, c. vii, p. xvi. 
