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E. patulum Lehm. is not specifically distinct." Altogether, it 

 seems well to treat it as a variety. Like the species, it is a native 

 of Southern Asia and Southeastern Europe. 



4b. Lappula Redowskii (Hornem.) Greene var. patula (Lehm.), 

 n. comb. — Echinospermum patulum Lehm. Asperif. 1:124. 1818. 



Specimens examined: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, May 1877, Isaac C. 

 Martindale; Greenwich Point, June 23, 1877, Parker; Oregon: Linnton, near 

 Portland, July 12, 191 2, W. N. Suksdorf (1930); Austro-Hungary: between 

 Paks and Komlod, Haynald (3707); Algeria: Hedna, 1865 (possibly intro- 

 duced); Elisabethpol (in Caucasia), June 1834, Hohenacker. 



5. Lappula cupulata (Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 

 28:31. iqoi. — Echinospermum Redowskii (Hornem.) Lehm. var 

 cupulatum Gray, Bot. Calif. 1:530. 1876; L. columbiana A. Nels. 

 Bot. Gaz. 34:28. 1902. — Greene (Pitt. 4:94. 1899), referring 

 to var. cupulata, wrote "that was made to include a number of 

 easily definable species, and there is no determining to what one of 

 the segregate species the name should be applied rather than to 

 another." The first part of this statement is undoubtedly correct; 

 but fortunately, as Piper (Contrib. Nat. Herb. 11:475. 1906) 

 indicated, the proper application of the name cupulata is perfectly 

 clear. The original specimen cited by Watson {op. cit. 247), no. 

 862, Trinity Mountains, Nevada, May 1865, and later indicated 

 by Gray (loc. cit.), is deposited in the Gray Herbarium. This 

 plant is well described by Aven Nelson (loc. cit.), who followed 

 Rydberg's conception of L. cupulata (loc. cit.). The latter's 

 remarks no doubt apply to the Rocky Mountain variety of L. 

 texana (Scheele) Britton, a very different plant. L. cupulata 

 (Gray) Rydb., in addition to its strong fruiting characters, has 

 a very distinct range, as is shown by the following typical specimens. 



Idaho: Snake River Plains, 1893, Edward Palmer (19, 115, and 78); 

 sandy soil, valley of Clearwater River, Nez Perces County, April 24, 1892, 

 Sandberg, Macdougal, and Heller (17); Oregon: Pine Creek, Crook County, 

 June 12, 1894, J. B. Leiberg (213); eastern Oregon, 1898, William C. Cusick 

 (i94S); Washington: Almota, May 27, 1893, C. V. Piper (1703). 



On the dry plains of southern Idaho and Wyoming a variation 

 of the above occurs that is bushy branched, the branches floriferous 

 nearly to the base, a variation common in this genus and always 



