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esteemed as a vulnerary, and its old names of " soldier's wound- wort " and "knight's 

 milfoil," bear witness to tliis. The Highlanders still make an ointment from it, which 

 they apply to wounds, and Professor Bromel states that milfoil-tea is held in much 

 repute in the Orkney islands for dispelling melancholy ! 



Gerardc tells us that it is the very same plant wherewith Achilles cured the 

 wounds of his soldiers. One of its common names among country people is " nose- 

 bleed ;" for the leaf being rolled up and ap|)lied to the nostrils causes a bleeding at the 

 nose more or less copious. It is also called " old man's pepper," on account of the 

 pungency of its foliage. 



SPECIES III.— ACHILLEA TAN ACETIPOLIA. AIL? 



Plate DCCXXVIII. 



Beirh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVII. Fig. 1. 



A. dentifera, B. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 25. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 1G.3. 



Rootstock elongate, creeping, with very long subterranean 

 stolons. Radical leaves elliptical ; stem-leaves elliptical-oblong ; all 

 pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments pinnatifid or 

 serrated, the ultimate lobes short, triangular, acute ; rachis of the 

 radical-leaves rather broad, toothed between the primary segments, 

 with the teeth serrate. Anthodes in a very large dense terminal 

 compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, subglabrous, with the phyl- 

 laries woolly towards the margins. Eay-florets white (in British 

 examples), about half as long as the pericline. 



On moors. Ringing Low, five miles north of Sheffield ; 

 Cromford Moor, Derbyshire; probably escaped from cultivation, 



[England.] Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, 2 to 4 feet high. Radical leaves and those of the 

 tufts at the apex of the stolons very large, stalked, finely divided, 

 the rachis with serrated teeth between the segments ; stem-leaves 

 narrower, witli the segments serrated or pinnatifid-serrated, often 

 with leaves in the axils. Anthodes \ inch across, white (generally 

 purplish in Continental specimens), closely resembling those of 

 A. Millefolium, but rather smaller, and having the phyllaries with 

 narrower scarious margins, which are reddish-brown on the outer 

 phyllaries, concolorous in the inner. Ray-florets more deeply 

 toothed at the apex. Stem and rachis of the leaves thinly woolly ; 

 segments more or less hairy. 



Tansy -leaved Yatvoto. 



French, AchUlie d, FeuiUes de Tanaisie. German, Edle Garbe. 



