1913] 
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No specimens of A. azureus or A. ericoides from the localities 
above mentioned have been preserved and the identification of 
these species from Milwaukee County must be considered very 
doubtful. 
VII. L. S. Cheney and R. H. True, 1893 
Volume IX of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of 
Sciences, Arts and Letters, published in 1893, contains a paper en- 
titled On the Flora of Madison and Vicinity, a 'preliminary paper 
on the Flora of Dane County , Wisconsin, by Messrs. L. S. Cheney 
and R. H. True. This paper names sixteen species of Asters, 
with notes on their distribution, as follows: 
Aster. L. Starwort. Aster. 
A. Novae-Angliae, L. Low wet pastures. Very common. 
A. sericeus, Vent. Growing on dry rocky points about Madison. Local. 
A. azureus, Linde. On sandy or gravelly soil. Not common. 
A. sagittifolius, Willd. Dry grounds throughout the region. Common. 
A. turbinellus, Lindl. Common on dry soil. 
A. laevis, L. Dry gravelly or sandy places. Not common. 
A. multiflorus, Ait. Not uncommon in dry soil along fences and in copses. 
A. diffusus, Ait., var. hirsuticaulis, Gray. Everywhere common in fields 
and thickets. 
A. Tradescanti, L. Low grounds. Not rare. 
A. paniculatus, Lam. Common in low lands. 
A. longifolius, Lam. (of Gray’s Man., 6th ed.) Growing in rich low lands. 
Rather common. 
A. Novi-Belgii, L. Occurring occasionally throughout the region. 
A. puniceus, L. Low thickets and swamps. Very abundant. 
A. umbellatus, Mill. Low moist thickets. Not rare. 
A. linariifolius, L. Sandy hillsides west of Madison. Rare. 
A. ptarmicoides, Torr. & Gray. Dry hills about Madison. Rather local . 
A . turbinellus in the foregoing list is unquestionably an erroneous 
identification. The University herbarium contains two specimens 
collected by the late John W. Dunlop, without date or locality, 
labeled A. turbinellus, which are plainly forms of A. laevis. Both 
leaves and heads are entirely unlike those of the former species. In 
‘the samejierbarium is a specimen collected at Madison in 1892 
and labeled A. Novi-Belgii, which perhaps belongs to A. longi- 
folius. Other specimens under the latter name seem to be correctly 
labeled. A specimen collected by “ Cheney & True” at Madison 
