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physician to the king, Louis XV ; was keeper of the king's seal, 
and a member of the Académie Reville des Sciences. 
He has been ascribed to the distinguished race of physicians 
which produced Jean Antoine Sarrasin, or Saracenus, Antwerp, 
editor of Dioscorides, whose father, Philibert, the physician at 
Lyons, espousing the Reformed faith, sought refuge in Geneva in 
1550. Jean’s sister, Louise, famous as a linguist, was twice 
married to a physician. Jean's two sons were physicians, one of 
them, Jacques Sarrasin, 1594-1663, being physician to Louis XIV. 
Should it be proved that our Michel Sarrasin at Quebec was ofthe 
kindred of Philibert Sarrasin, he will be found to have merely 
maintained the family traditions when he became Médecin du Rot 
to Louis XV in 1733-4. 
The name Sarrasin is still occasional in France, due originally, 
it is claimed, to the appellative of one who, as Crusader or other- 
wise, had returned from Saracen lands. 
A sketch of “ Sarrasin à Québec” is recorded as published in 
French at Quebec, by L'Abbé Bois, in 1856, forming a pamphlet 
of 12 pages. 
3. Crayton collected Aster Clayton, his Aster . . . cum umbel- 
/ula, in mountains of Virginia, along the tributaries of the upper 
James or Rappahannock, Neun in or before 1754. See zfra, 
under A. Clayton. 
4. MANASSEH CUTLER was searching for A. macrophyllus L., 
in Essex Co., Mass., in or before 1796, as is indicated by his MSS., 
but does not appear to have found it then, his plants proving to 
belong to A. undulatus. Bigelow and Oakes, a few years later, 
were more fortunate in that county, obtaining there A. macro- 
phyllus and also A. divaricatus. The latter Cutler must have seen 
also (at Chebacco Pond, for instance, where I find it abundant, and 
where he mentions obtaining other asters), though I do not find 
it mentioned among his surviving memoranda. 
5. Collections of A. macrophyllus L. and A. divaricatus L. were 
made soon after 1800, by Michaux, Pursh, Rafinesque, Muhlen- 
berg and Barton, the exact localities for which are, however, un- 
recorded. After this the species became common in botanical 
collections. Of other early collectors, Elliott and Gibbes in South 
Carolina, Oakes and Boott in Massachusetts, Shuttleworth in Penn- 
