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esteemed as a vulnerary, and its old names of " soldier's wound-wort" and "knight's 

 milfoil," bear witness to tins. The Highlanders still make an ointment from it, which 

 they apply to wounds, and Professor Bromel states that milfoil-tea is held in much 

 repute in the Orkney islands for dispelling melancholy ! 



Gerarde tells us that it is the very same plant wherewith Achilles cured the 

 wounds of his soldiers. One of its common names among country people is " nose- 

 bleed ;" for the leaf being rolled up and applied to the nostrils causes a bleeding at the 

 nose more or less copious. It is also called " old man's pepper," on account of the 

 pungency of its foliage. 



SPECIES III.— A C H I L L E A T AN ACETIPOLI A. All? 



Plate DCCXXVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVII. Fig. 1. 



A. dentifera, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 25. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 163. 



Rootstock elongate, creeping, with very long subterranean 

 stolons. Radical leaves elliptical ; stem-leaves elliptical-oblong ; all 

 pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments pinnatifid or 

 serrated, the ultimate lobes short, triangular, acute; rachis of the 

 radical-leaves rather broad, toothed between the primary segments, 

 with the teeth serrate. Anthodes in a very large dense terminal 

 compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, subglabrous, wath the phyl- 

 laries woolly towards the margins. Ray-florets white (in British 

 examples), about half as long as the pericline. 



On moors. Ringing Low, five miles north of Sheffield ; 

 Cromford Moor, Derbyshire ; probably escaped from cultivation. 



[England.] Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, 2 to 4 feet high. Radical leaves and those of the 

 tufts at the apex of the stolons very large, stalked, finely divided, 

 the rachis with serrated teeth betw een the segments ; stem-leaves 

 narrower, with the segments serrated or pinnatifid-serrated, often 

 with leaves in the axils. Anthodes \ inch across, white (generally 

 purplish in Continental specimens), closely resembling those of 

 A. Millefolium, but rather smaller, and having the phyllaries with 

 narrower scarious margins, which are reddish-brown on the outer 

 phyllaries, concolorous in the inner. Ray-florets more deeply 

 toothed at the apex. Stem and rachis of the leaves thinly woolly ; 

 segments more or less hairy. 



Tansy -leaved Yarrow. 



French, Achillee d, Feuilles de Tanaisie. German, Edle Garhe. 



