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culatus and A. salicifolius. Each of these three species occurs in 
Wisconsin and “ within thirty miles of the city of Milwaukee, ” 
and all were no doubt meant to be included in Lapham’s list. A. 
IcCxifolius probably stands for A . junceus. 
IV. Th. A. Bruhin’s Catalogue of 1876 
Rev. Th. A. Bruhin was a priest of the Catholic Church, educated 
in Europe, who came to this country, settled first in the village of 
New Coeln, in Milwaukee County, and afterwards had charge of 
the parish of St. Wendelin, in Sheboygan County. A paper 
written by him, under the title Vergleichende Flora Wisconsins, 
(“ Comparative Flora of Wisconsin”), was published in the Trans- 
actions of the Kaiserliche Koenigliche Botanische Gesellschaft of 
Vienna, in 1876. He did not claim to have added very much to 
the knowledge of Wisconsin botany by any original investigations 
of his own, but attempted to compile a list of such plants as he sup- 
posed might reasonably be regarded as occurring in Wisconsin in 
view of the range or habitat assigned to them in the current editions 
of Gray’s and Wood’s Manuals. Species which he believed him- 
self to have collected in the towns of Milwaukee and Lake are 
marked with a dagger. There were only three such species of 
Aster , and one of these — A. undulatus — was an erroneous identi- 
fication, which has, however, been repeated by later cataloguers. 
Bruhin’s list of Asters includes twenty-seven species and is as 
follows: 
Aster corymbosus Ait. “Common.” Gray. 
macrophyllus L. “Common northward.” Gray. (Bei St. Wendelin 
schon verblueht, als ich sie fand; nach dem Blatt zu schliessen 
aber doch diese Art.) 
sericeus Vent. “Wisconsin” nach Gray, 
laevis L. var. cyaneus. “Common northward” nach Gray, 
azureus Lindl. “Wisconsin” nach Gray. 
Shortii Boot. “Wisconsin” nach Gray und Wood, 
undulatus L. Milwaukee County, f 
cordifolius L. Daselbst.f 
ericoides L. “Wisconsin” nach Gray, 
multiflorus Ait. “Common” nach Gray, 
dumosus L. “Common.” Gray. 
* Tradescanti L. “Very common.” Gray. 
miser L. “Very common and variable.” Gray. 
