COMPOUND FLOWERS. 



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ACHILLA PT ARM ic A (Sneeze-wort). 



44. ACHILL^A (Yarrow). 



1. A. Millefolium (Common Yarrow, Milfoil). 

 Leaves twice pinnatifid, woolly, or slightly hairy ; leaf- 

 lets cut into hair-like segments ; flowers in dense ter- 

 minal corymbs. Waste ground, frequent. A common 

 road-side plant, with very tough, angular stems, 1 2 

 feet high, and corymbs of small, white, pink, or purplish 

 flowers, which, by an unp ractised eye, might be supposed 

 to belong to an umbelliferous plant. It has a strong 

 and slightly aromatic odour, and is said to have the 

 property of healing wounds. Fl. June September. 

 Perennial. 



