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ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM. 
COMMON YARROW; 
Or, MILFOIL. 
S YN N TMA 
gare album. 
Gerard. Emac, p 
Millefolium. Pharm. Edinh, Millefol 
Batih. Pin. p 
40 
ium terreftr 
vul 
are. 
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Millefolium 
are. 
Park. Theat. p 
Rail Hijl. p. 345. ^ynop. p. 1 83. Achillea foliis pinnatis 
qualibus, pinnatis, pinnulis trifidis et quinquefidis 
» A. M, Withering, Bot. Arrang. p. 941 
693. 
pinnis long 
Hal Stirp. Helv. 
Curtis Flor. Lond, 
? 
Clafs Syngenefia. 
Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Liit. Gen. Plant. 971 
EJJ. Gen. CL 
Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. 
Cal. ovatus 
imbricatus. Flofcidi radii circiter qumque 
; ■ ^ ~ ■ ■ ■ ' 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis bipinnatis nudis ; laciniis linearibus dentatls ; caulibu 
s 
fuperne fulcatis. 
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THE root is perennial, creeping, round, and furniflied with many 
whitiih fibres :' the ilalk is upright, round, towards the bottom fmooth 
and downy, but near the top it is flightly grooved, woolly, branched, 
and rifes above a foot in height : the leaves ftand alternately upon the 
ftem, which they partly embrace, and are bipinnated or fubdmded 
into a double feries of pinnae : the pinnul 
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numerous, narrow 
and fomev/hat pointed 
fl owners are white 
/3 
d with purple 
and terminate the ftem in a c 
lofe 
ymbus 
the bradese are 
fmall 
pinnatifid, and placed at the peduncles : the caly 
imbricated with concave oval fcales, which are 
ovate, downy 
membr 
ged at the margins : the, corolla is compound, and radiated 
f] 
di/c the florets 
the 
about twelve, hermaphrodit 
,nd 
the 
funnel-fhaped, of 
th of the caly 
onfifting of a long yellowifh tube, divided 
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D 
frefh 
place. 
N 
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0. 
TafteS) chap, 5 
and think? they might in fome meafure fuppiy 
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