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most plentifully or was of greater force, which was the country of 
Athens.—FParkinson, 1640. [So, essentially,] Bodacus, 1646. 
About Athens hodie.—Sibthorp, 1797. I saw them growing 
together wild, from the roadside, out toward Megara.—Aftica, 1890. 
n the banks of the river Asterion, near this Heraeum [between 
Mycenae and Argos, amid wild rocky hills] grows an herb which 
they also name Asterion. °Aotepiwva xat tay xoay tavtyy.—Pau- 
sanias, : 
Italian Localities.—Near the curving stream of Mella [the river 
Mela, flowing south from the Alps, near Mantua], ” Planta est 
hodie non paucis [in Italy] cognita, Watthioli, 1544? At Monte 
Baldi, near Verona, Ca/zolaris, 1566. 
I have gathered the Aster Amellus in dry hills near Bussoli- 
num, and Segusium, and in Vinodium at a place called Nirajessa. 
In hills about Turin within dry woods. In higher woods of Mont- 
ferrat not infrequent, beyond the town Mazius, cl. Bellardi Ber- 
ennio. Ad/oni, Fl. Piedmont, 1785. 
Habui ex districtu Como ; Sarnica, Baldi, Tyrol, Bolzan moun- 
tains ; from hills at Solferino, from the Apennines at Semano and 
Fivizza and many other places. Bertoloni, Fl. Italica, 1854. 
German Localities, etc—Near Jena; ego autem scio me verum 
Aster Atticum in montibus circa Jenam invenisse, et nascitur in 
petrosis montibus.— Valerius Cordis, 1539. 
Herbam cujus picturam exhibemus [is one now known in 
Germany |.—Fuchs, 1542. 
About the river of Rheine.—Zyve, 1595. 
Also in Austria, Carniola, Germany, and Switzerland where I 
found it very common about Bienne.—Jartyn, 1797. 
In Germaniae saxosis nemorosis satis vulgaris.—Wil/denow, 
1804. : 
In southern and middle Germany, Thuringia, Silesia, near 
Frankfort-an-der-Oder, on calcareous hills near Berlin, in Schrei, 
Salzburg, high Bavaria, Pfalz, Tirol, Schwabia; but not in the 
Schwarzwald.—//. Deutschland. 
About Vienna grows the tall rough form separated by Reich- 
enbach as Aster amelloides. 
I used to pick them asa girl near Passau.— Bavaria, 1898. 
General Range, etc—In many medowes both in Italy and 
