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no flowers then but the violet-colored star-like Aster blossoms. 
Curiously enough, even his comparison of leaves to “ Muguet” 
has a glimpse of Aster in it; for at the time of Sagard’s life the 
standard French name for the Aster of Europe, Aster Atticus, 
was Petit Muguet.* 
Perhaps his Huron Maio a is wholly based + on a C/iutonia ; 
but possibly it is based for the leaves on C7/ixtonia, and for the 
flowers on an Aster macrophyllus, tanthinus or multiformis. 
Later botanists record the name for Aster macrophyllus among 
the French in Canada of **Petouane," or ''Petune," { or Little 
Tobacco, from a custom of using its leaves as substitute for the 
tobacco leaf. Such uses were commonly learned from the Indians. 
Sagard in his Huron vocabulary, 1632, gives Testena and other 
names as the Huron for Petun or tobacco, and Satéya and Ataya 
as the equivalent for Petune. If he used Petun and Petune with 
the same distinction that is now maintained, it follows that his 
Huron Indians called Aster macrophyllus Ataya, or with prefix, 
Satéya ; signifying, apparently, Tobacco-smoke-plant = “ what we 
smoke 
2. SARRASIN. Dr. Michel Sarrasin of Quebec, born and died 
in France 1659-1734, was while living at Quebec, a member of 
the superior council of the French colony; contributed many 
scientific papers to the society memoirs of the day, including des- 
criptions of the beaver (1704) and muskrat, and the plant Sarra- 
cenia on which Tournefort bestowed his name. The historian 
Charlevoix on arriving in Canada expressed surprise at “ finding 
so learned a man in the colony,” says Tuckerman. 
To Vaillant in Paris, Sarrasin sent, before 1720, many of the 
Canadian Compositae, including A. macrophyllus L. (Vaillant’s no. 
28) 3 other asters (Vaillant’s nos. 31, 38, 46) and asmany golden- 
rods, with Artemisia Canadensis and related species. 
Later Sarrasin returned to Paris and was there honored as 
* Petit Muguet — Aster Atticus, fide Fuchs, 1551, and Jéan Bauhin's Historia 
plantarum, 1650 
T Sagard's reference is as follows : Le Muguet qu'ils ont en leur pays a bien fueille 
du tout semblable au nostre, mais la fleur on est toute austre ; car outre qu'elle est de 
couleur tirant sur le violet, elle est faicte en facon d'Estoille grande et large comme 
petit Narcis." Sagard, page = of C edition of 1632. 
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