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necessary. These are followed by a revised catalogue based upon 
the writer’s own investigations and, except as otherwise noted, 
upon specimens contained in his herbarium. Thirty-seven specific 
types and twenty-four distinguishable varieties are given places 
in this new catalogue. 
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED LISTS 
The previously published lists of Wisconsin Asters to which 
reference has been made are contained in the following publica- 
tions : 
I. I. A. Lapham’s Catalogue of Plants Found in the Vicinity of Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin Territory, published in 1838; and Supplement of 1840. 
II. C. C. Parry’s Systematic Catalogue of Plants of Wisconsin and Minne- 
sota, 1852. 
III. I. A. Lapham’s Catalogue of Plants of Wisconsin, 1853; and Addi- 
tions of 1860. 
IV. Th. A. Bruhin’s V ergleichende Flora Wisconsins, 1876. 
V. G. D. Swezey’s Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryp- 
togamous Plants of Wisconsin, 1883. 
VI. W. M. Wheeler’s Flora of Milwaukee County, 1888; and Supplement 
of 1889. 
VII. L. S. Cheney and R. H. True, Flora of Madison and Vicinity, 1893. 
VIII. H. F. Lueders’ Preliminary List of Phenogamva and Pteridophyta 
of the Town of Prairie du Sac, Wis., 1895. 
IX. Howland Russel’s Check List of the Flora of Milwaukee County, 
1907. 
X. S. C. Wadmond’s Flora of Racine and Kenosha Counties, 1909. 
These lists will be given in order in the following pages. An 
effort has been made to present them as nearly as practicable in 
the form in which they were originally published. For this rea- 
son a few typographical errors appearing in the original lists are 
allowed to remain uncorrected. 
7. I. A. Lapham’s Catalogue of 1838 and Supplemental Catalogue 
of 1840 . 
The earliest list of Wisconsin Asters is contained in A Catalogue 
of Plants Found in the Vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, 
which was published by Dr. I. A. Lapham and printed at the 
Advertiser office in Milwaukee in 1838. A prefatory note contains 
the following direction: 
