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sidered much better than a nomen nudum, a specimen of it given by 
Hooker to Gray shows it to be a much more leafy plant than Æ. acris, 
var. oligocephalus, with the comparatively short-peduncled heads 
forming a racemose inflorescence as in true E. acris and the var. 
asteroides. 
* * Cauline leaves elongate-linear, bristly-ciliate, usually equaling or exceed- 
ing all but the uppermost peduncles of the strict raceme. 
E. LONCHOPHYLLUS Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 18 (1834). E. armeri- 
folius 'Turez. in DC. Prodr. v. 291 (1836). E. armeriaefolius Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 648 (1873), Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2, 220 (1884). E. race- 
mosus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 312 (1841).— A characteristic 
plant in saline meadows from the Black Hills and the Saskatchewan 
Plains westward across the Rocky Mountain region: also in northern 
Asia. The only eastern material seen by us is from Anticosti (coll. 
Verrill). This specimen was on a sheet in the Gray Herbarium with 
other material and seems to have formed the basis for Dr. Gr ay's 
record in the Synoptical Flora of E. acris (true) from Anticosti." 
WILLIAM GLEASON GOLDSMITH. 
October 7, 1910,? passed away at his home in Andover, Mass., 
William Gleason Goldsmith, a very versatile and gifted man. Born 
in Andover, November 28, 1832, the eldest son of Jeremiah Goldsmith 
and Elizabeth Gleason — he was trained for college at Phillips 
Academy. After the usual four years course at Harvard, he graduated 
with high honors in 1857, ranking especially high as a Greek scholar. 
While there he studied botany with Prof. Gray and also studied 
anatomy. During the year 1858, he read law with Squire Hazen, 
until he was called to accept the position of Principal of Punchard 
Free School, which he held from 1858-1886. During a brief inter- 
1 The occurrence of E. lonchophyllus, a typical plant of saline habitats in the Rocky 
Mountain region, at an isolated station near the mouth of the St. Lawrence calls to 
mind the similar occurrence of Aster angustus T. & G., which grows in ‘‘wet saline 
soil" (Nelson) in the Rocky Mountain area, at a single station on the lower St. Law- 
rence (Cacouna, where it grows at the margin of the salt marsh); and a station of 
the similar Aster frondosus T. & G. on salt marshes at Brackley Point, Prince Edward 
Island, though otherwise known only on saline spots from Wyoming and Colorado 
to the Sierra Nevada. 
2 For the dates in this notice I am indebted to the issue of the Andover Townsman 
for Friday, October 14, 1910. 
