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the seeds are solitary, ovate, furnished with 

 flocks, but without down ; and the receptacle 

 is chaffy and elevated, the chaffs being lanceolate, 

 of the length of the florets. 



The species are numerous ; but those mostly 

 cultivated in the garden, and employed as orna- 

 mental plants, are, 1. A. M Uifolium, Common 

 Milfoil or Yarrow ; 2. yi. Ptarmica, Common 

 Ptarmica or Sneeze-wort ; 3. A. tmncntosa, Hoary 

 Yellow Milfoil; 4. A. Chuwiivic, 8 'very-leaved 

 Milfoil; b, A. nana, Dwarf Hoary Milfoil ; 6. 

 A. JEgyptiaca, ^Egyptian Hoary Sneeze-wort : 

 7. A. alrotanifolia, Southernwood-leaved Mil- 

 foil ; 8. A. macrophylla, Long Feverfew -leaved 

 Sneeze-wort. The three first are, however, in 

 most esteem as garden plants. 



In the first species, the root is perennial and 

 creeping, the stem rising to the height of a tool 

 or more ; the leaves alternate, doubly pinnated, 

 the lobes cut into narrow segments ; the flowers 

 in close broad-topped corymbs standing on 

 hoary peduncles. It flowers from June to Sep- 

 tember. 



'I be variety with purple flowers of different 

 shades is the sort most generally cultivated in 

 gardens for the purpose of ornament. 



The second has likewise a perennial root, with 

 the stem reddish, often rising to two feet in 

 height; the leaves alternate, spear-shaped, with 

 the edges sharply serrated ; the flowers in loose, 

 compound, upright, villous, leafy corymbs, at 

 the ends of the stems, of a whitish yellow 

 colour. 



The variety with double flowers, usually known 

 by the titles of Double Ptarmica or Bachelors' 

 Button, is that which is mostly cultivated. It 

 flowers in July and August, or later. 



In the third, the stems are many, leafy, and not 

 more than a foot in height ; the leaves pinnated, 

 rough, and hoary ; the lobes narrow and indented ; 

 the flowers of a fine yellow colour, continuing 

 long in blow. It is a native of Spain, and the 

 southern parts of France ; but capable of being 

 cultivated in the open air in this climate. 



The fourth species is a plant of but humble 

 growth, seldom rising more than six inches in 

 height. The leaves are pinnatifid, plain, obtuse, 

 and hoary, having a silvery appearance. The 

 flowers are of a white colour, and grow in flat 

 corymbs. They appear in June and July. The 

 plant is a native of the Alps. 



'I be fifth isavery small plant; the stem being 

 frequently bent : the leaves are pinnated, indented, 

 and downy: the umbels areofa white colour and 

 globular form. It is of hardy growth and easy 

 culture. 



The sixth is a plant that rises to the height of 

 from nine inches to a foot. The leaves are pin- 

 nated, having the lobes obtusely spear-shaped, 



and indented at the edges ; they have a silvery 

 appearance, and remain all the year. The flowers 

 are produced in corymbs on the tops of the stems, 

 coming out from June to September, and some 

 of them frequently continuing most part of the 

 winter. From the plant growing close and low, 

 it has at all seasons a pretty effect. It is a native 

 of the Levant, but has been long cultivated here. 



The seventh sp( cies grows to the height of two 

 feet and a hair, Irving pmnated supra-decom- 

 pound hoary haves that are cut into very narrow 

 segments, and which stand remote. The flowers 

 are of a yellow colour, appearing in June and 

 July. 



And in the eighth there are many stems which 

 rise to the height of nearly three leet, having on 

 their tops louse b inching corymbs of white 

 flowers. The leaves are pinnated and deeply 

 serrated, the outmost wings the largest. It is a 

 hati e of ine Airs, extremely hardy, thriving 

 well in (y^.n exposures, in almost any sort of 

 soil. The flowers appear in July and August. 



Culture. — These plants may be propagated in 

 different ways according to their kinds; as by 

 parting ihc roots, cuttings, slips, and seeds. 



The first method may be practised on all the 

 sorts, either in the autumn or spring season. 



In some of them, as the Egyptian sort, which 

 seldom produces perfect seed in this climate, it 

 may be performed by cuttings or slips, which 

 should be planted out in a warm, rather dry, 

 shady border, during the summer season. 



In those sorts that ripen their seed m a perfect 

 manner, the best method is by sowing it in a bed 

 of fine light mold about the middle of March, or 

 in the beginning of April, Covering the seeds in 

 very thinly. The plants will in general soon ap- 

 pear, and be ready to be transplanted into the 

 situations where they are to remain, in the fol- 

 lowing autumn. In this way, when not injured 

 by the severity of the winter, they mostly flow r er 

 the succeeding spring. 



The Egyptian and Silver-leaved species require 

 dry soils and warm sheltered situations ; as the 

 first is liable to be destroyed in severe winters by 

 the frosts in this climate, and the roots of the 

 latter to be destroyed by too much moisture in 

 the same season. In exposed situations it may 

 be adviseable to have a few plants of the former 

 sheltered under a frame in pots. As most of the 

 other sorts are sufficiently hardy, they require 

 but little attention in their cultivation. They 

 may be employed with good effect in the fronts 

 of borders and other parts, in shrubberies and 

 other pleasure grounds, as by the woolly ap- 

 pearance of the leaves in many of the kinds, and 

 the long continuance of the flowers in others, 

 they often form anagreeable diversity and pleasing 

 contrast. 



