SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Achillea. 463 



seu7n, t. 85, nor is there any evidence of its having been known 

 to Linnaeus. 



3. A. Millefolium. Common Yarrow, or Milfoil. 



Leaves doubly pinnatifid, hairy; segments linear, toothed, 

 pointed. Stem furrovt^ed. 



A. Millefolium. Linn. Sp. PL 1267. fVilld. v. 3. 2208. Fl. Br. 



908. Engl. Bot. v.W.t. 758. Curt. Land. fuse. G.t.GX. Mart. 



Rust. t. 123. fVoodv. t. 64. Hook. Scot. 248. Fl. Dan. t. 1Z1 . 



Bull. Fr.t. 163. 

 A. n, 107. Hall. Hist. V. 1.46. 

 Millefolium. Tillands Ic. 74./. 

 M. vulgare. Rail Syn. 183. Trag. Hist. A77.f. 

 M. terrestre vulgare. Ger. Em. 1072./. not good. 

 Stratiotes millefolia. Fuchs. Hist. 727. f. Ic.422.f. 

 Yarrow^^ or Nose-bleed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 9./. 4. 



In meadows and pastures abundantly. 



Perennial, June — August. 



Root creeping, with smooth, reddish, subterraneous shoots, which 

 are warm and agreeably pungent, partaking of the flavour and 

 salivating quality o( Anthemis Pyrethrum, or Pellitory of Spain. 

 Stems erect, a foot high, or more, slightly branched, leafy, fur- 

 rowed, downy, corymbose and many-flowered. Leaves doubly 

 pinnatifid, and deeply subdivided, with numerous, linear-wedge- 

 shaped, bristle-pointed segments, most hairy beneath. Fl. nu- 

 merous, white, occasionally reddish, or purple, represented with 

 much too broad a disk in the plate of Engl. Bot. The whole 

 herb is astringent, and weakly aromatic. The leaf loosely rolled 

 together, and put up the nostrils, causes, by an external blow 

 of the finger, a bleeding at the nose, which proves more or less 

 copious according to the state of the vessels within. The cuts 

 of old authors in general do not well express the foliage, Ge- 

 rarde's figure of the red-flowered variety is better than what he 

 gives for the common kind. Matth. Valgr. v.2.f. 485,486, 

 though probably intended for our Yarrow, convey no just idea 

 of it 3 and Camer. Epit.f. 876,877, are still worse. 



4. A. tomentosa. Woolly Yellow Milfoil, or Yarrow. 



Leaves doubly pinnatifid, woolly ; segments crowded, li- 

 near, acute. Corymbs repeatedly compound. 



A, tomentosa. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 264. mild. v. 3, 2209. Comp. ed. 4. 



140. Engl.Bot.v.36.t.2532. Hook.Scot.24S. Hopkirk, Glott. 



1 06. Curt. Mag. t. 498, DeCand. Fr. «. 4. 2 1 0. 

 A. n. 106. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 45. 

 Millefolium luteum. Ger. £w. 1073./. Lob.Ic.748.f. 



