150 COMPOSITE. 



BELLIS, Linn. 



34:2. B. perennis, L. Daisy. 



Bellis sylvestris minor, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 124. Syme E. B. v. t. 772. 



Fields, meadows, grass-plots, and roadsides ; very common. P. March — 



September, but chiefly in May and June. 

 Throughout all the districts. 

 VII. Abundant in the parks and squares of London, and in waste ground 

 and gardens. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



SOLIDAGO, Linn. 



3ft3. S. Virg^aurea, L. Golden-rod. 



Virga-aurea (Grer., Blackst.). V.-a. vulgaris (Park.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 112 ; iii. 460. Syme E. B. v. t. 778. 

 Woods and heaths ; rather rare. P. July — September. 



I. Harefield; Blackst. Fasc. 111. Pinner Wood; Melv. 47. 



III, Drilling Grround, Hounslow. 



IV. In Hampsteed Wood, plentifully, near the gate to Kentish Towne ; 



Ger. 349 ; Park. Tkeat. 543 ; and many subsequent authors. 

 Bishop's Wood. Hampstead Heath ! ; Blackst. Spec. 105. 

 VI. Winchmore Hill Wood. 

 VII. Lower Heath, Hampstead. 



First record: Gerarde, 1597; also the first notice as British. A dwarf 

 form was distinguished by the old botanists. Gerarde calls it V.-a. 

 Arnoldi Villa novani, and both he and Johnson (Eric.) mention it in 

 (IV.) Hampstead Wood. It is probably V.-a. vulgari humilior {R. 

 Syn. iii. 176) on Hampstead Heath; Huds. i. 319; and nearly 

 answers to Smith's var. Cambrica. 



INULA, Li7in. 



344:. * I. Helenium, L. Elecampane. 



Helenkim (Ger.). Enula campana (Merr.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 121 ; iii. 462. Syme E. B. v. t. 766. 

 Meadows ; very rare. P. July — September. 



I. In a close adjoining to Harefield Common ; in a meadow called Gant- 

 lets near Breakspears ; Blackst. Fasc. 25. 



II. In an orchard bet. Colbrook and Ditton Ferry ; Ger. 649. 

 IV. By Hamsted Heath ; Merr. M8S. 



VI. Bank of a pond bet. Chase Cottage and South Lodge, Enfield Chase ; 

 Phyt. K S. vi. 301. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597. Probably escaped from cultivation. 



