184 The Flora of Wiltshire. 
8. South-west District, Woods at Longleat. “Berkeley Wood 
near Corsley,” Miss Griffith. . 
North Division. 
4. North-west District, “Chippenham,” Dr. Alexander Prior. 
‘* Slaughterford,” Mr. C. EF. Broome. 
5. North-east District, “Great Bedwyn,” Mr. William, Bartlett. 
Very variable in size, the compactness or laxity of its inflorescence, 
and serratures of the leaves. FVowers bright yellow, in a terminal 
leafy cluster, which is either simple or compound. 
Invta, (Linn.) Invta. 
Linn. Cl. xix. Ord. ii. + 
Name. A word used by Virgil and Horace, said to be a cor- 
ruption of Helenium, Latin for Elecampane: inula, or enula cam- 
pana. 
1. I. Helenium, (Linn.) Elecampane; the plant has the repu- 
tation of having sprung from the tears of Helen. Engl. Bot. t. 
1546. Corvisartia Helenium. Reich. Icones, xvi. 921. 
Locality. Moist meadows and pastures. P. Fl. July, August. 
Area, * * 3. 4. 5. 
South Division. 
3. South-west District, Left. bank of the river, near Bemerton ; 
also in meadows near West Harnham Mill,” Dr. Maton. ‘‘ Nat. 
Hist. Wilts.” ‘ Watery places in meadows about Britford,” 
Major Smith. 
North Division. 
4, North-west District, ‘Ina field by the road-side from Kings- 
down to South Wraxhall,”’ Miss Lonsdale. “ Flor. Bath.” 
5. North-east District, Great Bedwyn,” Ur. William Bartlett. 
Rare throughout Wilts, and perhaps scarcely wild in the above 
localities. Stem 3 or 4 feet high ; flowers large, solitary, terminat- 
ing the stem and branches. 
2. I. Conyza, (DC.) Ploughman’s Spikenard. Conyza from 
konops, (Gr.) a gnat; the plant having been supposed to possess 
the virtue of driving away insects. Conysa squarrosa, Smith. 
Engl. Bot. t. 1195. Reich. Icones, xvi. 928. 
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