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Achillea millefolium , Common Yarrow or Milfoil, Thousand-leaved Grass.— 
The flowers yield an essential oil. The leaves and flowering heads are celebrated 
by the Materia Medica writers as stimulant and stomachic in infusion, but are 
little attended to at present. The leaf loosely rolled together, and put up the 
nostrils, causes, by an external blow of the finger, a bleeding at the nose, more 
or less copious, according to the state of the vessels within ; whence the vulgar 
name Nose-bleed. Sheep and Swine eat it. Horses, Cows, and Goats are not 
fond of it. Though the productive and nutrient properties of Yarrow are inferior 
to those of other plants equally adapted to light soils, Mr. Sinclair considers 
it an indispensable ingredient of the most fattening and healthy pastures, in 
which he suspects it may be destitute of sanative effects. We are assured by 
W. P. Taunton, Esq., in Hort. Gram., that the prevalence of this plant indicates 
a siliceous soil. It is sometimes used in the north of Europe as a substitute for 
Hops, and also supposed to increase the inebriating quality of malt-liquor. 
Hooker states that it is highly astringent, and that the Highlanders are said to 
make an ointment of it, which dries and heals wounds. 
Achillea tomentosa .—The whole herb, as well as the flower, has an aromatic 
scent when rubbed. It serves to decorate rock-work in gardens, but will not 
bear wet or shade. 
Woodside , near Liverpool , 
Dec. 4, 1837. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Queries and Notes respecting Certain Plants. 
To the Editor of the Naturalist. 
Dear Sir, —As I consider your magazine a medium for receiving information 
as well as for communicating the same, perhaps some of your correspondents 
will inform me whether there is such a plant as Malope grandiflora in Loudon's 
Hortus Britannicus. I have the last edition, but cannot find it; or whether 
there is such a species or not. I have a dried specimen of another plant which 
I cannot find in Loudon’s Catalogue,, It is mentioned in the catalogue of garden 
flowers in Howitt’s Booh of the Seasons under the name of Nigella Bomana , 
but I can find neither it nor a synonym in Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus. I 
should also be obliged for information respecting Alyssum odorata and An- 
