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Obferve that plant of an umbelli- 
ferous appearance, whofe innumera- 
ble fmall flowers are of a beautiful 
red-purple: they are generally white. 
It is of the Clafs and Order Syngene- 
fta Polygamiafuperflua: you will ac- 
cordingly find that thejhfculi in the 
difk contamjtamina andptftilla-, and 
thofe of the radius, which are about 
five in number, piftilla only. It is 
the Achillea millefolium; in Englifh, 
Yarrow. It is called millefolium, from 
the numerous divifion of its leaves. 
There is an engraving of this plant 
in the Flora Londinenfis y in which 
the flower is drawn with too little 
attention to perfpe6live. 
That noble plant, among the corn, Centau- 
with beautiful purple flowers on the rea * 
top of imbricated black-green globes, 
is of the fame genus, and confe- 
quently of the fame Clafs and Order, 
with the Centaurea cyanus or Blue- 
bottle, which you examined laft 
month: accordingly, you will find, 
that the exterior jlofculi have no pif- 
-t that they are tubular, larger 
u 4 than 
