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Another pretty kind is the Woolly Yellow Milfoil, A. tomentosa, a 
pretty little Alpine species, with downy leaves and fine tufts of 
golden yellow flowers. The favourite British Yarrow of the garden 
— if the Rosy Yarrow does not happen to be the favourite — is the 
Sneezewort Yarrow, A. p tar mica, with snowy white flowers, and 
extremely elegant leaves, which grow in a tuft close to the ground, 
and being finely cut, and of a pleasing tint of green, often cause the 
plant to be mistaken, when not in flower, for a fern, which it fairly 
resembles. The double-flowering variety belongs especially to the 
garden. It thrives best in a moist, shady spot, but will grow almost 
anywhere. The Yarrows belong to the composite order, and have 
the bitter, pungent, and peculiar odour by which their near relatives 
the camomiles and feverfews are distinguished. 
Many Geraniums or Crane’s-bills, in addition to the Herb Robert 
already noticed, will attract our attention during the sunny month 
of June. A splendid Alpine species, the Bloody Crane’s-bill, Ger- 
PEABLWOBT SPVEBEY. 
(The detached flowers are natural size.) 
anium sawjuineum , has many orbicular or kidney-shaped leaves, and 
a few largo solitary flowers of a fine purplish crimson colour. This 
you will find in every garden where good hardy plants have the 
encouragement they deserve. The Dusky Crane’s-bill, G. phceum, 
is a strong-growing plant, with flowers of a deep, dingy, purplish- 
black colour. It may be found wild in mountainous woods, and in 
the garden where such plants are prized. The Wood Crane s-biil, 
G. sylvaticum, grows two to three feet high, with large deeply-lobed 
leaves and flowers growing in pairs, in large clusters at the summit 
of the plant •, they are of a fine light purple colour, pencilled with 
dark lines. This may be distinguished from all other British 
Geraniums by the hairs on the stems of the stamens, or, in other 
words, by its ciliated filaments. The Blue Meadow Crane’s-bill, 
G. pratense, grows in moist rich pastures in mountainous districts • 
the leaves are deeply cut, the flowers grow in pairs ; they are of a 
fine blue colour. There is no wild plant to surpass this in beauty 
June. 
