98 COMPOSITE. 



LINOSYRIS, DC. 



420. L. vulgaris, Cass. 



Native ; only on limestone near Weston-super-Mare. 



Perhaps now extinct. 



"Rocks near Birnbeck Island"; St. Brody, Fl. 156. 

 A specimen in the B. N. S. Herbarium labelled " Worle 



Hill," no date. 

 " Has been observed by Dr. Wollaston on the south 



western extremity of the Mendip Hills, Somersetshire." 



With., ed. 7.,iii., 920, 1830. 

 Worle Hill, S. Sept., 1846. Herb. Powell. 

 Some specimens in the Jenyn's Herbarium at Bath, 



gathered at Weston-super-Mare, Sept. 27, 1851. " The 



spot was then being built over." 

 Worle Hill, Somerset; Sy. E. B. 

 INULA, L. 



421. I. Helenium, L. Elecampane. 



In moist meadows and marshes, very rare. Native in 



Gloucestershire. 

 G. lu a remote part of the marshes between Hallen and 



New Passage, where it occurs in tolerable abundance. 



Mr. D. Fry. " In a pasture ground near Wick Cliffs, 



Mr. Swayne." With., ed. 3, iii., 730. 

 S. Brislington, 1853 ; Herb. Stephens. Brook side, 



Dundry ; ib. Hay Hill, one mile south of Wells, in 



1850 ; at Yarley, in 1860 ; also in other spots near 



Wells. Miss Livett. VII. VIII. 



422. I. Conyza, DC. Ploughman's Spikenard. 



Native ; on dry and limestone soils, usually in shady situa- 

 tions ; sometimes in sheltered sunny ones. Frequent. 



G. St. Vincent's Rocks, and bank of Avon below Clifton. 

 Crew's Hole. Stinchcombe Hill. About Wotton-under- 

 Edge. 



