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Numerous prepared specimens of Wisconsin plants have, within the last 
few years, been distributed among the botanists of our own and other 
countries; and the critical notices kindly returned by them, have been of 
much assistance in making this enumeration. It embraces one hundred 
and thirty-six of the natural orders or families, four hundred and fifty- 
nine genera, and nine hundred and forty-nine species — all found within 
thirty miles of the city of Milwaukee, unless other localities are mentioned. 
Twenty-one species of Asters are enumerated in this catalogue, 
with the names of the authors printed as follows : 
Aster, Linn. Starwort. 
macrophyllus, Linn, 
sericeus, Vent. 
concolor, Linn. Neenah River, Dr. Houghton, 
laevis, Linn, 
azureus, Lindl. 
Shortii, Boot. 
cordifolius, Linn. St. Croix, Dr. Parry, 
sagittifolius, Willd. 
multiflorus, Ait. 
miser, Linn. 
tenuifoius, Linn. Upper Mississippi, Dr. Houghton. 
praealtus, Poir. 
carneus, Nees. 
laxifolius, Nees. 
puniceus, Linn. 
prenanthoides, Muhl. 
oblongifolius, Nutt. Upper Mississippi, Torr. & Gray. 
Novae-Angliae, Linn, 
ptarmicoides, Torr. & Gray. 
Diplopappus, Cass. 
linariifolius, Hook. Beloit, Mr. T. McElHenry. 
umbellatus, Torr. & Gray. 
In a list of “Additions to the Flora of Wisconsin/’ by T. J. Hale, 
in volume V of the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society , published in 1860 , the following additional species is given, 
apparently on the authority of Dr. Asa Gray: 
Aster ericoides, L. Wis. Gray. 
Of the species named in the foregoing list A . concolor is the only 
one which must be dropped. A. tenuifolius has been used as a 
synonym for A. Tradescanti L. and A. paniculatus Lam.; A. 
' praealtus for A. salicifolius Ait.; and A. carneus for both A. pani- 
