LAPPULA AMERICANA (Gray).
Echinospennum de/71mm var. Americanum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17 : 224.
I think this is quite distinct from the European L. degcxa. The species of the Mississippi Valley and westward is a much larger plant, with a many-flowered divergently paniculate-branched in florescence and broadly oblanceolate leaves. The European L.
deflexa has almost linear leaves. L. Americana was collected by the author at Deer Lodge, Mont., in 1895 (no. 2775), a point much further west than the supposed range of the species.