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within the state. It is not included in Parry’s catalogue, next to 
be noticed. Its. inclusion in Lapham’s list was based upon a mis- 
taken identification. Lapham himself evidently came to the same 
conclusion later, for it is omitted from his catalogue of 1853. 
Luckily there is no question as to the plant which was thus desig- 
nated. A. divaricatus is represented in eastern Wisconsin by two 
closely related species which have been described by Prof. Edward 
S. Burgess, in his admirable monograph entitled Species and Vari- 
ations of Biotian Asters , under the names of A. furcatus and A. lep- 
tocaulis. The type specimens of A. leptocaulis are stated by Pro- 
fessor Burgess to be the following: “plant from Milwaukee, Wis., 
Dr. H. E. Hasse in hb. N. Y. Bot. Gar and “plant of Milwaukee, 
Wis., I. A. Lapham, Au., 1842, in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar.’’ 1 A similar 
plant from Milwaukee County, bearing the name of I. A. Lapham 
on the label and the designation of A . corymhosus, but without any 
date, is contained in the herbarium of the University of Wisconsin. 
A. furcatus and its congener, A. leptocaulis, as found in this 
state, normally occur in the grassy edges of tamarack or black ash 
swamps, in a black loam resting upon heavy clay, or clay and 
gravel. A. divaricatus, on the contrary, flourishes on rocky, 
wooded hillsides, or the steep slopes of river gorges. Professor 
Burgess has found it in ravines cut in the shales in western New 
York. The writer has collected it in similar ravines or gorges at 
Conneaut and Ashtabula in northeastern Ohio. Careful search, 
however, has failed to discover it in similar situations along the 
banks of the Chagrin River at Willoughby and Chagrin Falls, the 
Cuyahoga River near Akron, or in the gorges of Rocky River, 
Black River or Vermillion River, west of Cleveland. It probably 
finds its western limit in northern Ohio somewhere between Ashta- 
bula and Cleveland. 
II. C. C. Parry’s Catalogue of 1852 
The next list in order of time is found in a Systematic Catalogue 
of Plants of Wisconsin and Minnesota, by C. C. Parry, M.D., made 
in connection with the Geological Survey of the Northwest, during 
the season of 1848, and included in the “Report of a Geological 
Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota; and incidentally of a 
Portion of Nebraska Territory. Made under Instructions from 
