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Achillea millefolium. Natura Orver: Composite —Aster Family. 
Se; ASTURES and old fields throughout the Northern States are 
the favorite haunts of the Yarrow. The stem is about a foot 
high. The foliage is cut or parted into numerous divisions, 
thereby giving it the name of Milfoil, from the Latin mille 
. folia, signifying a thousand leaves. Achilles was said to 
‘a whe have discovered its medicinal properties while studying bot- 
honored with his name. The flowers are white or rose-colored, and 
bloom in flat-topped corymbs from June to autumn. The whole plant 
has a pungent taste and aromatic odor. A. ptarmica (from the Greek 
Ptairein, to sneeze), or Sneezewort, is another variety, run wild in 
many places, but also sometimes cultivated in gardens. 
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liv death more cruel from a private dagger 
Than in the field, from murdering swords of thousands? 
Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? 
—Cibber. 
WO troops in fair array one moment show’d, 
The next, a field with fallen bodies strow’d: 
Not half the number in ther seats are found, 
But men and steeds lie groveling on the ground. 
The points of spears are stuck within the shield, 
Ty WAS blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, 
For one would not retreat, nor t’ other flinch. 
War, my lord, A few dull years in peace and propagation, 
Is of eternal use to human kind; The world is overstock'd with fools, and wants 
For ever and anon, when you have pass’d A pestilence, at least, if not a hero. —Feffery. 
H* is unwise that to a market goes, 
Where there is nothing to be sold but blows. 
—Aleyn. é 
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The steeds without their riders scour the field. 
The knights unhorsed, on foot renew the fight; 
The glittering falchions cast a gleaming light, 
Hauberks and helms are hew’d with many a wound, 
Out spins the streaming blood, and dyes the ground. 
—Dryden, 
—Byron. 
