COMPOSITE. 57 



Bootstock short, branched, producinj^ short stolons terminating 

 in tufts of loaves. Flowering-stem erect from a decumbent base, 

 3 inches to 1 foot high, spai'ingly leafy, generally corymbosely 

 branched at the apex. Anthodes ^ inch across, very numerous, in 

 a compact compound corymb. Plant dull-green, with the leaves 

 slightly and the stem densely woolly. 



Tf^oolhj Yellow Yarrow. 



French, Achillee Cotonneuse. German, Garbe. 



SPECIES IT.— ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXXVII. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVI. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Genu. E.xsicc. No. 1501. 



Eootstook creeping, with rather long subterranean stolons. 

 Eadical leaves elliptical-strapshaped ; stem-leaves strapshaped ; 

 all tripinnatipartite or bipinnatij^artite, with the segments cut, 

 the ultimate lobes linear-subulate, very acute ; the rachis entire 

 (rarely with a single undivided tooth between each of the seg- 

 ments), and so nai*row between the primary segments that the 

 leaves ought almost to be termed pinnate or bipinnate. Anthodes 

 in a dense terminal compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, sub- 

 glabrous, with the phyllaries woolly towards the margin. Ray-florets 

 white or pink, half as long as the pericline. 



In pastures, waste ground, borders of fields, &c. Very common, 

 and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Rootstock rather short, creeping, slender. Sloms erect, 3 to 

 18 inches high, leafy, the leaves often with 2 or 3 small leaves in 

 their axils. Radical leaves stalked, much longer than the stem- 

 leaves ; the uppermost stem-leaves less divided and with shorter 

 segments. Anthodes J inch across. Disk whitish or pink ; ray- 

 florets white, pink, or deep-rose. Phyllaries strongly keeled, with 

 a brown or more rarely fuscous scarious margin ; the ligule sub- 

 orbicular, bluntly toothed at the apex. Plant dull-green ; the stem 

 and rachis of tlie leaves more or less woolly ; the leaves hairy or, 

 ill shady situations, subglabrous. 



Common Yarrow. 



French, Achillee Millefeuitte, German, Schafgarbe. 



The flowers of this species of Yarrow are known to every country child, and 

 may be found in almost evory meadow in the suniiiier time. It was formerly much 

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