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ing in acute points. The stalks are terminated !)>• erect racemi 

 of flowers, growing in clusters, of a ijriiilu xellow colour." 

 This in the fifth edition form the concluding remarks of his 

 Species No. 27 otherwise described as follows: "27. Solidti^o 

 caule paniculato, racemis erect is, floribus cotiferlis Joliis lanceo- 

 latis serratis scabris. CK)lden-rod with a panicled stalk, erect 

 spikes with flowers in clusters, and spear-shaped, rough, sawed 

 leaves." This does not appear in his other works and was never 

 given a binomial name. I think it was based on a specimen of 

 his own SoUdago conjerta {S. speciosa Nutt.) 



It seems to me that Solidago obtusifolia Miller also represents 

 SoUdago stricta Ait. No specimen of it could be found in the 

 British Museum. 



I am therefore taking up the very appropriate name Soli- 

 dago petioJata Miller, and treating Solidago linearia Miller, Soli- 

 dago obtusifolia Miller and Solidago stricta Ait. as synonyms. 



New York. 



Joseph Edward Kirkwood^ 



Dr. Joseph Edward Kirkwood, Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Montana, died suddenly on August 16, 1928, in 

 his 57th year, while engaged in research at the Uni\ersity 

 Biological Station at Yellow Bay, Flathead Lake, Montana. 

 After graduation from Pacific University, in Oregon in 1898, 

 he studied at Princeton Uni\'ersity, Columbia Universit>-, and 

 The New York Botanical Garden, receiving the degree of A. M. 

 from Princeton in 1902 and that of Ph. D. from Columbia in 

 1903. His doctorate thesis on "The Comparative Embryology 

 of the Cucurbitaceae" was published in Volume 3 of the 

 Bulletin of The New York Botanical Garderf. Fom 1901 to 

 1907, he was, successi\ely, instructor, assistant professor, and 

 professor of botany in Syracuse University. From 1907 to 

 1909, Dr. Kirkwood was associated with the Continental- 

 Mexican Rubber Company, in studying the availability of the 

 guayule shrub as a source of rubber, spending one year at 

 Torreon, Mexico, and the next at the Desert Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution at Tucson, Arizona. Since 1909, he had 

 been connected with the botanical and forestry work of the 

 University of Montana. His summers were devoted chiefly to 



' Reprinted from the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 



