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Rootstock short, branched, producing short stolons terminating 

 in tufts of leaves. Flowering-stem erect from a decumbent base, 

 3 inches to 1 foot high, sparingly leafy, generally corymbosely 

 ])ranched at the apex. Anthodes ^ inch across, very numerous, in 

 a compact compound corymb. Plant dull-green, with the leaves 

 slightly and the stem densely woolly. 



Woolly Yellow Yarrow. 



French, Achillee Cotoniieiise. German, Garbe. 



SPECIES ir— A CHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM. Ihm. 



Plate DCCXXVII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv, Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVI. 

 Jiillot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. loOl. 



Pootstock creeping, with rather long subterranean stolons. 

 Hadical leaves elliptical-strapshaped ; stem-leaves strapshaped ; 

 all tripinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments cut, 

 the ultimate lobes linear-subulate, very acute ; the rachis entire 

 (rarely with a single undivided tooth between each of the seg- 

 ments), and so narrow between the primary segments that the 

 leaves ought almost to be termed pinnate or bipinnate. Anthodes 

 in a dense terminal compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, sub- 

 glabrous, with the phyllaries woolly towards the margin, llay-ilorets 

 white or pink, half as long as the pericline. 



In pastures, waste ground, borders of fields, &c. Very common, 

 and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



Ptootstock rather short, creeping, slender. Stems erect, 3 to 

 18 inches high, leafy, the leaves often with 2 or 3 small leaves in 

 their axils, lladical leaves stalked, much longer than the stem- 

 leaves ; the uppermost stem-leaves less divided and with shorter 

 segments. Anthodes ^ inch across. Disk whitish or pink ; ray- 

 florets white, pink, or deep-rose. Phyllaries strongly keeled, with 

 a brown or more rarely fuscous scarious margin ; the ligule sub- 

 orbicular, bluntly toothed at the apex. Plant dull-green ; the stem 

 and rachis of the leaves more or less woolly ; the leaves hairy or, 

 in shady situations, subglabrous. 



Common Yarrow. 



Frencli, Achillee Milleftiiille. German, Schafgarhe. 



The flowers of this species of Yarrow are known to every country child, ai.d 

 may be found iu almost every meadow in the summer time. It was formerly much 

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