ACHILLEA. 
473 
t. 135; Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 77. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 
2, rr. Chiefly in or about gardens, to which indeed formerly 
(i. e. 30 or 40 years ago, at the Mount, S la Anna, &c.) it was 
quite confined, but has now become perfectly naturalized by 
roadsides or in waste ground at S‘ a Anna, Camacha, Fajaa 
d’Ovelha, &c. May-Sept. — Rhizome strong tough blackish 
emitting long stringy simple roots and a few slender w. or pur- 
plish subterranean stolons. Whole pi. pubescent but with dark 
full-gr. foliage. St. stout hard robust simple straight erect 
branched only at top into a fastigiate cyme, 1-2 ft. high 
(mostly 15-20 in.) angular or ribbed somewhat thinly cottony- 
pubescent. L. slightly hairy-pubescent, the lower stalketjl and 
4 or 5 in. long, the upper sessile 1-2 or 3 in. long, all 3-6 or 
8 lines wide and dark full gr. with the rachis either simple or 
very narrowly margined and perfectly entire ; segments of pin me 
numerous finely cuspidate or linear-acuminate entire all inter- 
crossing and falcately incurved or ascending above the plane of 
the rachis. Cyme single terminal 3-6 in. in diam. densely 
many-fld., its branches and the inv. slightly cottony-pubescent. 
Heads oblong-ovoidal 3 lines long, 2 broad ; inv. 2 lines-^- in. 
long, scales lanceolate gr. with a darker gr. nerve and brown 
scarious edges, altogether but thinly cottony-hairy. Ligules 
half the length of the inv. as broad as long i. e. in., always 
(in Mad.) w. : florets of disk prominent convex, their tube com- 
pressed 2-earinate, its base embracing introsusceptively the top 
of the ach. ; the latter (immature or abortive in my Mad. spec., 
but in English) are narrowly oblong-cuneate obcompressed and 
marginate or slightly 2-winged, truncate and naked at' top, 
smooth and even. 
Introduced from England 40 or 50 years ago, this pi. has be- 
come now not only general in cottage gardens but seminatu- 
ralized in their vicinity and is a favourite rustic remedy in xa- 
ropes (drinks or decoctions), fomentations, &c. 
tff 2. A. Aceratum L. Macella. 
Root-stock woody ; st.-l. fasciculate shortly petioled spathu- 
late-oblong obtuse undivided finely and regularly duplicato- 
serrate, the lower 1. inciso-serrate or pectinatelysubpinnatifid 
downwards and attenuate at base into long petioles ; heads 
crowded in a dense terminal cyme, fl. altogether y., ray very 
short; ach. rounded at top. — Linn. Sp. 1264; Vill. Dauph. iii. 
256 ; Brot. i. 397 ; Pers. ii. 467 ; Bucli 195. no. 268 ; 1)C. vi. 
27; Gr. et Godr. ii. 165; RFG. xvi. t. 122. f. 1; Willk. et 
Lange Fl. Hisp. ii. 79. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, Only in 
cottage gardens chiefly to the westward, Magdalena, Calheta, 
Fajaa d’Ovelha, &c. May-Sept. — Though recorded by Yon 
