Achillea,'] XLvi. composite : cokymbifek^. 



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If.. 7, 8. 



Stem 1 



3 feet high, erect, terminating In a rather large 



Leaves 



corymb, the disk as well as ra?/ of whose flowers is white, 

 sometimes slightly dotted. — When dried and pulverised, the plant 

 has been employed to excite sneezing. 



2. A. "^decolorans Schrad. (dotted-leaved F.) ; leaves downy 

 closely dotted linear-lanceolate coarsely and doubly serrate 

 pectinate at the base, serratures spreading, segments at the 

 base radiating, ray 5 — 6 flowered. A. serrata Sm, (not Retz): 



E.B.t.253l. 



Near Matlock, Derbyshire. Somerset. II. 9. — Commonly 

 cultivated in gardens under the name of A. alpina, to which, as well 

 as to J, serratciy it appears to approach very closely ; the native coun- 

 try of all the three would seem to be Siberia, if indeed some be not 

 mere garden productions. Ligules bufF-coloured. 



3. 



* 



ifolia 



natifid with a broadly winged serrate midrib, segments broad 

 and teeth of the midrib inciso-serrate. 



Ringing Low, near Sheffield; Cromford Moor, Derb5^shlre. ^. 

 7. — We have seen no British specimens, and do not know what 

 species is meant ; the above character is therefore abridged from Mr. 

 Babington's manual, who adds that the root-leaves have a lanceolate, 

 the stem ones an oblong outline, usually bipinnatifid, but sometimes 

 only once pinnatlfid; rachis with large inciso-serrate teeth especially 

 just under the pinnae. It is probable that the above is A> dentifera 

 D. C, or J, magna All. ; the true A, tanacetifoUa is said by De Candolle 

 to have an entire rachis. The allied species are so much cultivated 

 in gardens, that we doubt of this and the last being truly indigenous. 



4. A. Millefol'mm L. (common Y, or iJf.) ; leaves deeply bi- 

 I)innatifid, lobes incise, segments linear acute, stems furrowed, 

 scales of the involucre nearly glabrous, E. B. t. 758. 



Pastures and way-sides, frequent. If.. 

 small, white, or sometimes rose-coloured. 



glabrous. 



6 — 9. — Heads of flowers 



Leaves woolly or nearly 



The quality of this plant is highly astringent, and the 



Highlanders are said to make an ointment of it, which dries and heals 



wounds. 



^5. A. ^tomentosa L. (woolly yellow M. or F.) ; leaves woolly 

 pinnatifid, lobes crowded 2 — 3-cleft, segments linear acute, 

 corymbs repeatedly compound, scales of the involucre woolly. 

 E. B. t. 2532. 



Dry hilly pastures, in Scotland. Spittle-hill, north-west of Balvie, 

 Dumbartonshire; and near Paisley. Auchlunkart, BamfFshire ; P. 

 Stewart, ILsq. Near Newcastle, Co, Down, Ireland; Miss Keown. 

 X' ^ 8, — Stem a span or rather more in height. Readily recognised 

 by its small size, downy leaves, and much branched conjmhs of yellow 

 flowers. Formerly much cultivated as a medicinal plant, as well as 

 l^r Us beautv. 



