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are as beautiful on the ftalks at two year's end, as in the time 

 of flowering, if gathered dry, and kept free from duft. They 

 ilower in May and June. The feed is minute, with a plumofe 

 crown. The leaves are ufed for defluxions of the lungs, and for 

 the convulfive or whooping cough in children. 



8 1. Purple-flowered Yarrow, or Mill/oil (d). By way-fides, and 

 on new ditch-banks, not unfrequent with the white fort (ej ; of 

 which it is a variety. 



The common Yarrow is commended for internal haemorrhages, 

 and defluxions of all kinds. It is an excellent remedy for ilub- 

 born cancers, with garden hyfibp ; an equal quantity of both 

 pounded together, and a fpoonful of the juice drank in a glafs 

 of white wine every morning falling. A young gentlewoman 

 in the fouth of England, of about thirty years of age, had a can- 

 cer in her breaft, fo dangerous, that nothing lefs than amputa- 

 tion, it was thought, could fave her life ; which fhe declining, 

 a gentleman of great medical experience, and of a humane dif- 

 pofition, recommended the ufe of this fimple remedy, by taking 



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(d) Millefolium purpurei floris. Dad. Pempt. p. 100. Millefolium vulgare purpureum 

 minus. C. B. Pin. p. 140. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 38. Achillea vulgaris flore purpureo. Vaill. 



(e) Milk-folium. Soot. Icon. 36. Millefolium feu Achillea. Dod. Pempt. p. 100. Milli- 

 folium vulgare. Park. p. 693. Raj. Hift. i. p. 345. Syn. iii. p. 91. Millefolium vulgare 

 album. C. E. Pin. p. 140. Toitrn. Inft. p. 496. Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 122-3. Hift. Oxon. 

 iii. p. 38. Bocrb. Ind. A. p. 122. Dill. GilT. p. 140. Millefolium Stratiotcs pennatum 

 terreftre. I. B. iii. p. 136. Millefolium, Offic. Da'.. Pharm. p. 95. Achillea vulgaris 

 flore albo. ACT. REG. Par. Ann. 1720. p. 320. Achillea vulgaris, flore albo. Vatll. Aft. 

 1720. p. 415. Achillea foliis pinnato-pinnatis. Linn, Flo. Lapp. n. 311. Achillea foliis 

 duplicato-pinnatis, glabris, laciniis linearibus acute laciniatis. Hort. Cliff, p. 413. Flo. Suec. 

 11.705. Royen. lugdb. p. 175. Achillea pinnis foliorum plurimis, longe aequalibus, pin- 

 natis, pinn,ulis trifidis & quinquefidis. Hall. Helv. p. 715. 



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