Tas. 6117. 
ACHILLEA AGERATIFOLIA. 
Native of Greece. 
Nat. Ord. Compostr#.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER. 
Genus Acuiiiéa, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 419). 
AcuiLea (Ptarmica) ageratifolia ; perennis, ceespitosa, tota niveo-tomentosa, 
.  foliis radicalibus confertis patenti-recurvis anguste lingulato-lanceolatis 
apices versus dilatatis obtusis crenato-serratis crenis interdum biseriatis, 
{  eaulinis sepe basi dilatatis et pectinato-lobulatis, capitulis solitariis 
» amplis, involucri hemispherici squamis oblongis, paleis oblongo-lanceo- 
y _ latis apice scariosig laceris, ligulis 2-seriatis late oblongis 3-crenatis. 
ACHILLEA ageratifolia, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f- Gen. Pl., vol, i, p. 420, ; 
Awtuemis ageratifolia, Sibth. Prodr. Flor, Greec., vol. ii, p..19¥; Fl, Gree. 
4 t 888; DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 12...’ * fe 
2 A. Aizoon, Grisgb. Fl. Runel. et Byth., vol. ii. p, 210; Walp. Rep., vol, vi. 
po east - eee bere 
% A, Aizoides, Boiss. et Orphan. mss. cS em 
This charming little plant is a native of the mountains of 
Greece, and was first detected (in Crete >) by Sibthorp, and it 
has since been gathered on the mainland, by Prof. Orphanides, 
of Athens, in the middle region of Mount Olympus in 
Thessaly, at an elevation of 5-7000 feet. A very nearly allied 
plant, most probably a variety, is the Anthemis Aizoon, of 
Griesbach, a native of the mountains of Macedonia, which 
has also been gathered in the upper regions of Mount 
Parnassus, at an elevation of 6-7000 feet, by Prof. 
Orphanides, and named by him and M. Boissier Anthems 
Aizoides ; it differs in the smaller size, shorter more spathu- 
late leaves, which show no signs of double crenature. Both 
are obviously species of Achillea, having compressed achenes, 
quite different from those of Anthemis, of which they have 
more the habit. 
Lindley, in the ninth volume of Sibthorp’s Flora Greeca, 
observes correctly, that this is not the Lepidophorum repandum, 
AuGusT Ist, 1874. 
