3. Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Britton. 
Pale Purple Cone-flower. Fig. 4458. 
Rudbeckia pallida Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 
77. 1834. . 
Brauneria pallida Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 
333. 1894. 
Similar to the preceding species, but often 
taller, sometimes 3° high. Leaves elongated- 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire; rays 
narrow, linear, elongated, drooping, 14’-3’ 
long, 14”-3” wide, rose-purple or nearly 
white. 
In dry soil on prairies, Illinois to Michigan, 
Alabama and Texas. May-July. 
COMPOSITAE. 
Vor. III. 
2. Echinacea angustifolia DC. Narrow- 
leaved Purple Cone-flower. Fig. 4457. 
Echinacea angustifolia DC. Prodr. 5: 554. 1836. 
Brauneria angustifolia Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 
5. 1900, 
Stem hispid or hirsute, slender, often sim- 
ple, 1°-2° high. Leaves lanceolate, oblong- 
lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, hirsute, acute 
and about equally narrowed at each end, 
strongly 3-nerved and sometimes with an ad- 
ditional pair of marginal less distinct nerves, 
entire, 3-8’ long, 4-12” wide, the lower and 
basal ones slender-petioled, the upper short- 
petioled or sessile; heads and flowers similar 
to those of the preceding species, but the rays 
usually shorter, spreading. 
In dry soil, especially on prairies, Minnesota to 
Saskatchewan, Nebraska and Texas. Confused 
with the following species in our first edition. 
Comb. 
June-Oct. 
4. Echinacea parad6xa (Norton) Brit- 
ton. Bush’s Cone-flower. Fig. 4459. 
Brauneria atrorubens Boynton & Beadle, Biltmore 
Bot. Stud. 1: 11. 1901. Not Rudbeckia atro- 
rubens Nutt. 
Brauneria paradoxa Norton, Trans. Acad. St. 
Louis 12: 40. 1902. 
Stem glabrous to somewhat hispid, 1°-23° 
high. Leaves smooth or sparingly rough- 
hairy, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, the lower 
ones petioled, sometimes 1° long, 3’-1' wide, 
3-5-nerved, the upper smaller and nearly ses- 
sile; involucre about 1’ high and broad, the 
disk-flowers brown; rays bright yellow, droop- 
ing or somewhat spreading, 14’-23’ long. 
Prairies and barren soil, Missouri to Texas. 
June. 
