184 



The Flora of Wiltshire. 



3. 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. E. Broome. 



5. North-east District, " Great Bedwyn," Mr. William Bar tie m 

 Very variable in size, the compactness or laxity of its inflorescence, 

 and serratures of the leaves. Flowers bright yellow, in a terminal 

 leafy cluster, which is either simple or compound. 



Inula, (Linn.) Inula. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. ii. 



Name. A word used by Yirgil and Horace, said to be a cor- 

 ruption of Selenium, Latin for Elecampane : inula, or enula cam- 

 pana. 



1. I. Selenium, (Linn.) Elecampane; the plant has the repu- 

 tation of having sprung from the tears of Helen. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1546. Corvisartia Selenium. Reich. Icones, x\i. 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. 

 Sist. Wills." " Watery places in meadows about Britford," 

 Major Smith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, " In a field by the road-side from Kings- 

 down to South Wraxhall," Miss Lonsdale. " Flor. Bath." 



5. North-east District, " Great Bedwyn," Mr. William Bartlett. 

 Bare 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, (D C.) Ploughman's Spikenard. Conyza from 

 konops, (Gr.) a gnat; the plant having been supposed to possess 

 the virtue of driving away insects. Conyza squarrosa, Smith. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1195. Reich. Icones, xvi. 923. 



