ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GEN US XII.— K C H I L L E A. Linn. 
Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, several or many-flowered, 
lv discoid. Clinanth convex or elongate-conical, clothed with 
pale®. Pericline hemispherical or campanulate-ovoid, of numerous 
imbricated herbaceous phyllaries with scarious margins. Florets 
the disk tubular, perfect, the tube not produced into auricles 
;it the base ; those of the ray few, shortly ligulate and female. 
Achenes compressed, smooth on the faces; epigynous disk without 
a crown or pappus. 
Mi ihs wilh alternate, sessile, serrated or pinnatifid or finely 
divided Leaves. Anthodes rather small or small, with the florets 
of the disk yellow or white, those of the ray with the ligule sub- 
orbicular, white, yellow, or pink. 
This genus of plants derives its name from Achilles, the hero of Grecian story. 
Section I.— MILLEFOLIUM. Tourncf. 
Pericline ovoid. Florets of the ray shorter than the pericline. 
Cliuanth elongate-conical at maturity. 
SPECIES L— ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA. Linn. 
Plate DCCXXVI. 
Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXII. Figs. 2, 3. 
!•]. Call, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1010. 
Rootstoek short, scarcely creeping, with abbreviated leafy 
sb.lous. Leaves narrowly strapshaped, pinnatipartite, with the 
Lobes approximate, pinnatifid, with 2 or 3 short linear lobes in 
the lower leaves, the rachis entire between the lobes, simple in 
the upper. Anthodes in a dense terminal repeatedly compound 
corymb. Pericline ovoid, woolly. Florets all yellow, ray half as 
Ion- as ill.- pericline. 
In dry billy pastures, not native. It has been found on 
Spittle Hill, north-west of Bal vie, Dumbartonshire ; near Paisley, 
Renfrew; Auchlunkert, Banffshire; and near Newcastle, county 
Down. I have a specimen from the Rev. W. W. Newbould, 
labelled " North of Yorkshire. G. Francis." 
| England, Scotland, Ireland.] Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
