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esteemed as a vulnerary, and its old names of "soldier's wound-wort" and "kniglit's 
milfoil," bear witness to this. The Highlanders still make an ointment from it, which 
they apply to wounds, and Professor Bromel states that milfoil-tea is held in much 
repute in the Orkney islands for dispelling melancholy ! 
Gerarde tells us that it is the very same plant wherewith Achilles cured the 
wounds of his soldiers. One of its common names among country people is "nose- 
bleed ;" for the leaf being rolled up and applied to the nostrils causes a bleeding at the 
nose more or less copious. It is also called "old man's pepper," on account of the 
pungency of its foliage. 
SPECIES III.— ACHILLEA T AN ACETIFOLI A. All. ? 
Plate DCCXXVIII. 
R ich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXVII. Fig. 1. 
A. dentifera, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 25. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 1G3. 
Ptootstock elongate, creeping, with very long subterranean 
stolons. Radical leaves elliptical ; stem-leaves elliptical-oblong ; all 
pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite, with the segments pinnatifid or 
serrated, 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- 
larics woollv towards the margins. Rav-ilorets white (in British 
examples), about half as long as the pericline. 
On moors. Ringing Low, five miles north of Sheffield ; 
Cromford Moor, Derbyshire; probably escaped from cultivation. 
[England.] Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Stem erect, 2 to 4 feet high. Radical leaves and those of the 
tufts at the apex of the stolons very large, stalked, finely divided, 
the rachis wit li serrated teeth between the segments; stem-leaves 
narrower, with the segments serrated or pinnatifid-scrrated, often 
with leaves in the axils. Anthodes J inch across, white (generally 
purplish in Continental specimens), closely resembling those of 
A. Millefolium, but 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 at the apex. Stem and rachis of the leaves thinly woolly ; 
segments more or less hairy. 
Tansy -leaved Yarrow. 
French, AcJtillee d Feuilles de Tcmaioe. GerniaD, Edit Garbe. 
