418 Aster History: DALECHAMP 
« Aster montanus luteus’ (=?). 
“« Asterias sive Stellaria Dalechampii’”’ (= Spergula ?). 
XCV. ALPINUS 
Alpinus (Prosper Alpino), 1553-1617, in his “ De plants 
Aegyptis liber, cum Medicina Aegyptorum,” Venice, 1592, has one 
plant which was commonly called an Aster in that century, his 
‘‘Baccharis vel Carpesium” (= Carpesium cernuum L.). 
XCVI. GERARDE 
Gerarde—John Gerarde, 1545-1607; well-known author of the 
“ Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Ger- 
arde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. Imprinted at London by 
John Norton, 1597.” He mentions, chapter 125, pp. 391-93, 
“ Of Starrewort,’ 11 kinds of Aster, by number, not by name, 
with four figures, which bear the following botanical names : 
“ Aster*Atticus ” (= Pallenis spinosa Cass.). 
“ Aster Italorum”’ (= Aster Amellus L.). 
“ Aster montanus”’ (= /nula montana L.). 
“ Aster hirsutus” (= /nula jirta L.). 
Turner, author of the first great English Herball, 1551-1558, 
many years before Gerarde, had omitted Aster, for some reason not 
apparent. With Gerarde, English publications of Asters began, 
though but feebly ; the following century was to witness, in Mori- 
son and Ray, a principal localization of Aster studies in England, 
and the next. the 18th, was to see it transferred to France and 
Germany. 
PoLytypic ASTER 
After the establishment of Aster as a polytypic genus by Clu- 
sius, 1576-1601, etc., a rapid increase in new species followed, 
species then placed in Aster, but since assigned to Conyza, Inula, 
Pulicaria, etc. The two centuries following have already been 
summarized, pages 16-18, as the Clusian and Linnaean periods of 
Aster history ; the former including, and the latter excluding, all 
yellow-rayed relatives. Into these periods it is not at present our 
purpose to enter; the details of Aster history, as already remarked, 
are better pursued, after Clusius, species by species. 
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