416 Aster History: CESALPINO 
ASTER AMONG CLUSIUS’ CONTEMPORARIES PRIOR 
TO 1600 
LXXXIX. CESALPINO 
Cesalpino, Andrea, whose De plantis, libr. XVI (Florence, 
1583; 671 p.) ushered in a new era in botany *—due to the philo- 
sophical conceptions formulated in the 50 pages of its preface ; 
after which the XVI books of descriptions of known plants follows. 
Cesalpino lived 1519-1603; was of Arezzo, professor at Pisa, 
and physician to Pope Clement VIII. He mentions by the fol- 
lowing names, fide Bauhin, 7 Asters or plants then so called: 
Aster acticus (= Pallenis spinosa Cass.). 
Aster acticus alpinus foliolis luteis (= /u/a montana L.). 
Aster acticus tertius (= Buphthalmum grandifiorum L.). 
Aster actico similis altera quae Cunilago (/uula dysenterica L.). 
Incensaria (= /nula odora L.). 
Anthyllis altera (= Aster acris L., prob.). 
Anthyllidi secunda similis (= Aster alpinus L., prob.). 
XC. WoLrFF 
Wolff, Caspar, literary heir to Gesner ; his “ De Stirpium Col- 
lectione,” Zurich, 1587, pages 61 and 141, has one aster only. 
‘Aster Atticus Fuchsii, floret Angusto et Septembri”’ (= 4s- 
ter Amellus L.). 
XCI. THALivus 
Thal,—Johannes Thalius, author of one of the first of local 
floras, his Sylva Hercynia, Frankfort, 1588, 133 p., printed with 
Camerarius’ Hortus medicus (ex libr. E. L. Greene) ; has, 
“Aster Atticus caeruleus, paucis tamen in locis” (= Aster 
Amellus L.). 
“Amellus Virgilii putatus” (= Caltha Virgilii of Bock, Popu- 
lago of Tabernaemontanus, Chamaeleuce of Anguillara, Chelidonia 
palustris of Cordus, etc.) (= Caltha palustris L. and before of Ges- 
ner, , Dodoens, Pena and Lobel, (Clusius, Gerarde, C. Bauhin, eas 
ated the new era of Aster history. 
