ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM, 



YABROW, OR MILFOIL. 



Eootstock perennial, creeping extensively under- 

 ground, with smooth reddish stolons. Stems 2 to 3 

 feet, erect, furrowed, woolly or sub-glabrous. Stem- 

 leaves lanceolate ; radical leaves stalked, both doubly 

 pinnatifid ; lobes cut into linear segments. Heads 

 corymbose, dense. Phyllodes oblong, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Flowers white or pink. Eay flowers few. Ligule 

 broad as long. Disc flowers perfect, five-toothed. 

 Fruit oblong, compressed, shining. Flowers June to 

 September. Native of Northern Europe, Northern 

 and Western Asia, Northern India, and North 

 America. 



ANALYSIS. 



Water .... 

 •Soluble albuminoids 

 **Insoluble albuminoids . 



Digestible fibre 



Woody iibre . 



Soluble mineral matter, 

 finsoluble mineral matter 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hy 



drates, &c. 



Yarrow in 



Natural State. 



78-01 

 •05 

 1-37 

 C-82 

 G-49 

 1-33 

 •98 

 4-95 



Dried at 

 212° Fahr. 



•25 



6-19 



31-04 



29-51 



6-04 



4-47 



22-50 



100-00 



100-00 



• Containing Xitrogen "008 "04 



*» Containing Nitrogen -22 '99 



Albuminoid Nitrogen -228 1-03 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen -IS -75 



Total Nitrogen ;3S8 1-78 



t Containing Silica -38 1-73 



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