56 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



GUNUS XII.—A C H I L L E A. Zinn. 



Antliodes lieterogamous and radiant, several or many-flowered, 

 rarely discoid. Clinanth convex or elongate-conical, clothed with 

 pale^e. Pericline hemispherical or campanulate-ovoid, of numerous 

 imbricated herbaceous phyllaries with scarious margins. Plorets 

 of the disk tubular, perfect, the tube not produced into auricles 

 at the base ; those of the ray few, shortly ligulate and female. 

 Achenes compressed, smooth on the faces ; epigynous disk without 

 a crown or pappus. 



Herbs with alternate, sessile, serrated or pinnatifid or finely 

 divided leaves. Anthodes rather small or small, with the florets 

 of the disk yellow or white, those of the ray with the ligule sub- 

 orbicular, white, yellow, or pink. 



This genus of plants derives its name from Achilles, the hero of Grecian story. 



Section I.— MILLEFOLIUM. Toimief. 



Pericline ovoid. Plorets of the ray shorter than the pericline. 

 Clinanth elongate-conical at maturity. 



SPECIES L— ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA. Linn. 



Plate DCCXXVI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXII. Figs. 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1010. 



Rootstock short, scarcely creeping, with abbreviated leafy 

 stolons. Leaves narrowly strapshaped, pinnatipartite, with the 

 lobes approximate, pinnatifid, with 2 or 3 short linear lobes in 

 the lower leaves, the rachis entire between the lobes, simple in 

 the upper. Anthodes in a dense terminal repeatedly compound 

 corymb. Pericline ovoid, woolly. Plorets all yellow, ray half as 

 long as the pericline. 



In dry hilly pastures, not native. It has been found on 

 Spittle Hill, north-west of Balvie, Dumbartonshire ; near Paisley, 

 Henfrew ; Auchlunkert, Banffshire ; and near Newcastle, county 

 Down. I have a specimen from the Rev. W. W. Newbould, 

 labelled " North of Yorkshire. G. Prancis." 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



