COMPOSITE. 57 
Eootstock short, branched, producing short stolons terminating 
in tufts of leaves. Flowering-stem erect from a decumhent base, 
3 inches to 1 foot high, sparingly leafy, generally corymbosely 
branched at the apex. Anthodes ,', inch across, very numerous, in 
a compact compound corymb. Plant dull-green, with the leaves 
sliq-htlv and the stem densely woolly. 
Woolly Yellow Yarrow. 
French, Achillee Cotonneuse. German, Garbe. 
SPECIES II— ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM, linn. 
Plate DCCXXYII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1-301. 
Eootstock creeping, with rather long subterranean stolons. 
Radical leaves elliptical-strapshaped ; stem-leaves strapshaped ; 
all tripinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments cut, 
the ultimate lobes linear-subulate, very acute ; the rachis entire 
(rarely with a single undivided tooth between each of the seg- 
ments), and so narrow between the primary segments that the 
leaves ought almost to be termed pinnate or bipinnate. Anthodes 
in a dense terminal compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, sub- 
glabrous, with the phyllaries woolly towards the margin. E-ay-florets 
white or pink, half as long as the pericline. 
In pastures, waste ground, borders of fields, &c. Very common, 
and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Eootstock rather short, creeping, slender. Stems erect, 3 to 
18 inches high, leafy, the leaves often with 2 or 3 small leaves in 
their axils. Radical leaves stalked, much longer than the stem- 
leaves ; the uppermost stem-leaves less divided and with shorter 
segments. Anthodes J inch across. Disk whitish or pink ; ray- 
florets white, pink, or deep-rose. Phyllaries strongly keeled, with 
a brown or more rarely fuscous scarious margin ; the ligule sub- 
orbicular, bluntly toothed at the apex. Plant dull-green ; the stem 
and rachis of the leaves more or less woolly; the leaves hairy or, 
in shady situations, subglabrous. 
Common Yarrow. 
French, Achillee Millefeuille. German, Scltafgarbe. 
The flowers of this species of Yarrow are known to every country child, and 
m-.iy be found in almo3t every meadow in the summer time. It was formerly much 
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