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KNOLISn BOTANY. 
1 its old names of " Boldier's wound-wort" and "kniglit's 
..;." bear •■■• thia The Highlanders still make an ointment from it, which 
tli- v apply to wounds, and Professor Bromel states that milfoil-tea is held in much 
repute in the Orkney islands for dispelling melancholy ! 
,i,l, tells u- that it is the very same plant wherewith Achilles cured the 
r i it of bis Boldiera One of its common names among country people is " nose- 
bleed :" for the leaf being rolled ap and applied to the nostrils causes a bleeding at the 
more or less copious. It is also called "old man's pepper," on account of the 
pungency of its foli i 
BPECIES in.— ACHILLEA T AN ACETIFOLI A. AIL? 
Plate DCCXXVIII. 
I II. Germ, el ll.lv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVII. Fig. 1. 
A. dentifera, D. C. Prod Vol. VI. p. 25. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 1G3. 
Etootstock elongate, creeping, with very long subterranean 
stolons. Radical leaves elliptical; stem-leaves elliptical-oblong; all 
pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments pinna tiiid or 
Berrated, the ultimate lobes short, triangular, acute; rachis of the 
radical-leaves rather broad, toothed between the primary segments, 
with the teeth serrate. Anthodes in a very large dense terminal 
compound corymb. Pericline ovoid, subglabrous, with the phyl- 
laries woolly towards the margins, llav-ilorets white (in British 
examples), about half as long as the pericline. 
On moors. Hinging Low, five miles north of Sheffield; 
Cromford Moor, Derbyshire; probably escaped from cultivation. 
[England.] Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Stem erect, 2 to 1 feet high. Radical leaves and those of the 
tufts :ii the apex of the stolons very large, stalked, finely divided, 
the rachis with serrated teeth between the segments; stem-leaves 
narrower, with the segments serrated or pinnatifid-serrated, often 
Ul11 ' leaves in the axils. Anthodes 4- inch across, white (generally 
purplish in Continental specimens), closely resembling those of 
A. Millefolium, bul rather smaller, and having the phyllaries with 
narrower scarious margins, which are reddish-brown on the outer 
phyllaries, concolorous in the inner. Ray-florets more deeply 
toothed :n the apex. Stem and rachis of the leaves thinly woolly'; 
ments more or less hairy. 
Tansy-leaved Yarrow. 
French, Achilfa <> FtuiUoe de Tcmatou. GermaD, EdU Garbe. 
