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Monroe: Wild Asters of Wisconsin 
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For synonyma, references to authors, &c., see Eaton’s Manual of Botany, 
seventh edition, 1836. 
This catalogue contains the following Asters, the names of the 
authors being omitted : 
Aster amygdalinus. puniceus. 
Nova-Angliae. Novi-Belgii. 
macrophyllus. Shortii. 
A supplemental catalogue published in 1840 adds the following 
names : 
Aster ledifolius 
sericeus. 
laevis. 
In these lists A. amygdalinus no doubt stands for a broad-leaved 
form of A. umbellatus; A. N ovi-Belgii represents some member of 
the paniculatus group; and A. ledifolius (a synonym for A. nemo- 
ralis Ait., which does not occur in this state) may have stood for 
some form of A. lateriflorus. These three names are absent from 
the catalogue of 1853, soon to be noticed, where their places are 
taken by others here suggested as the ones which were intended. 
The catalogue of 1838 contains the first recognition of A. Shortii 
as a Wisconsin plant. It is also included in Lapham’s catalogue 
of 1853, Bruhin’s catalogue of 187.6, and Swezey’s catalogue of 
1883. Curiously enough it is omitted from Wheeler’s List of 
Species Occurring in Milwaukee County, published in 1888, and 
from his supplemental list of 1889. It is found in Russel’s Check 
List of the Flora of Milwaukee County (1907), and in Wadmond’s 
Flora of Racine and Kenosha Counties (1909). In the fifth edition 
of Gray’s Manual, published in 1867, the range of this species is 
given as being from “Ohio to Wisconsin and southward, ” no doubt 
on Lapham’s authority; but in the later editions of Gray’s Manual, 
in Britton’s Manual and Britton and Brown’s Illustrated Flora, 
Wisconsin is not included within its range. It is difficult to under- 
stand this omission. 
Lapham’s supplemental list of 1840 is responsible for the in- 
clusion in later lists, by other authors, of A. corymbosus Ait., a 
synonym for A . divaricatus L. This species does not occur in the 
vicinity of Milwaukee, nor, so far as can be ascertained, anywhere 
cordifolius. 
corymbosum. 
