142 JHEDICINAL IIEIIBS AXD POISONOUS PLANTS 



The flowers are small and white. In identifying this 

 flower, close attention should be paid to the leaves. In 

 former da3^s many healing virtues were ascribed to this 

 herb: chewed in the mouth it cured toothache, applied 

 to the scalp it prevented incipient baldness, and so on. 



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I'ig. 87.— Yarrow or Arilfoil {Achillea Miilefolhnn) 

 a. Disk floiut. h, Ray floret, c, SfetL 



Whatever its virtues may be, it is still regularly culti- 

 vated for medicinal purposes. At present it would pay 

 to extend its cultivation, seeing that we use from 10 to 

 20 tons of it, the pre- War supply being largely from 

 Germany- Its price has gone up from 20^. a cwt to 

 over 40.^. a cwt. 



