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FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



white, but a more or less deep tint of pink is not by any 

 means uncommon ; both colours may often be found on the 

 same hedge-bank. The leaves of the yarrow are very long 

 and narrow in general outline, and very deeply divided into a 

 great number of small lateral parts, which are in them- 

 selves again sub-divided ; hence the name milfoil, or 

 thousand-leaf, that is often applied to the plant. The 

 foliage varies a good deal in appearance from its being 

 sometimes thickly covered with soft white hairs, while at 

 other times it is quite free from them. 



The sneeze- wort, Ackillea ptarmica, an allied species, is 

 common in moist mountainous districts. The inflorescence 

 is white, but the leaves are much simpler in form than 

 those of the milfoil. 



