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FIG. 301. Achillea Millefolium. Common yarrow. A very common hardy 

 weed, persisting along roadsides and waste places when nearly all other vege- 

 tation is destroyed. Although not flowering until June the leaves are among 

 the first to emerge from the ground in the early spring. Stems simple, occa- 

 sionally branched above; leaves lanceolate in outline, pinnately dissected; 

 flowers white to crimson, in compound, flat-topped corymbs. The generic 

 name alludes to the supposition that Achilles discovered the virtues of the 

 plant, and the specific name alludes to the numerous divisions of the leaf. 

 After Brown. 



