2G CORRESPONDENCE. 



Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow or Milfoil, Thousand-leaved Grass. — 

 The flowers yield an essential oil. The leaves and flowering heads are celebrated 

 by the Materia Medica writers as stimulant and stomachic in infusion, but are 

 little attended to at present. The leaf loosely rolled together, and put up the 

 nostrils, causes, by an external blow of the finger, a bleeding at the nose, more 

 or less copious, according to the state of 'the vessels within ; whence the vulgar 

 name Nose-bleed. Sheep and Swine eat it. Horses, Cows, and Goats are not 

 fond of it. Though the productive and nutrient properties of Yarrow are inferior 

 to those of other plants equally adapted to light soils, Mr. Sinclair considers 

 it an indispensable ingredient of the most fattening and healthy pastures, in 

 which he suspects it may be destitute of sanative effects. We are assured by 

 W. P. Taunton, Esq., in Hort. Gram., that the prevalence of this plant indicates 

 a siliceous soil. It is sometimes used in the north of Europe as a substitute for 

 Hops, and also supposed to increase the inebriating quality of malt-liquor. 

 Hooker states that it is highly astringent, and that the Highlanders are said to 

 make an ointment of it, which dries and heals wounds. 



Achillea tomentosa. — The whole herb, as well as the flower, has an ^ aromatic 

 scent when rubbed. It serves to decorate rock-work in gardens, but will not 

 bear wet or shade. 



Woodside, near Liverpool, 

 Dec. 4, 1837. 



( To be continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Queries and Notes respecting Certain Plants. 



To the Editor of the Naturalist. 



Dear Sir, — As I consider your magazine a medium for receiving information 

 as well as for communicating the same, perhaps some of your correspondents 

 will inform me whether there is such a plant as Malope grandiflora in Loudon's 

 Hertus Britannicus. I have the last edition, but cannot find it ; or whether 

 there is such a species or not. I have a dried specimen of another plant which 

 I cannot find in Loudon's Catalogue, It is mentioned in the catalogue of garden 

 flowers in Howitt's Book of the Seasons under the name of Nigetta Romana, 

 but I can find neither it nor a synonym in Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. I 

 should also be obliged for information respecting Alyssum odorata and An- 



