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2td)'tUca millefolium. Natural Order: Compositce—Aster Family. 
ASTURES and old fields throughout the Northern States are 
the favorite haunts of the Yarrow. The stem is about a foot 
| high. The foliage is cut or parted into numerous divisions, 
thereby giving it the name of Milfoil, from the Latin mille 
A folia , signifying a thousand leaves. Achilles was said to 
have discovered its medicinal properties while studying bot¬ 
any under Chiron the centaur, from which circumstance it has been 
honored with his name. The flowers are white or rose-colored, and 
bloom in flat-topped corymbs from June to autumn. The whole plant 
has a pungent taste and aromatic odor. A. ptarmica (from the Greek 
ftairein, to sneeze), or Sneezewort, is another variety, run wild in 
many places, but also sometimes cultivated in gardens. 
T S death more cruel from a private dagger 
Than in the field, from murdering swords of thousands? 
Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? 
— Cibber. 
TWO troops in fair array one moment show’d, The steeds without their riders scour the field. 
The next, a field with fallen bodies strow’d: The knights unhorsed, on foot renew the fight; 
Not half the number in ther seats are found, The glittering falchions cast a gleaming light, 
But men and steeds lie groveling on the ground. Hauberks and helms are hew’d with many a wound, 
The points of spears are stuck within the shield, Out spins the streaming blood, and dyes the ground. 
— Dryden. 
5 'T' WAS blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, 
For one would not retreat, nor t’other flinch. 
—-Byron. 
War, my lord, A few dull years in peace and propagation, 
Is of eternal use to human kind; The world is overstock’d with fools, and wants 
For ever and anon, when you have pass’d A pestilence, at least, if not a hero. -Jeffery. 
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E is unwise that to a market goes, 
Where there is nothing to be sold but blows. 
— A leyn. 
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