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Show COMMON YARROw. blind piles. It is esteemed a vulnerary ; and the great Haller says, that an infusion taken inwardly, together with an outward application of its leaves, cut fine, has very well and speedily succeeded, from a want of the arnica, in dissipating dreadful bruises arising from a fall from a tree. It miay perhaps derive its name from the use Achilles made of this plant with his army; for the celebrated Stahl reports, that it readily cicatrizes wounds. There is a species called Ptarmica, from its juice exciting sneezing, and thereby relieving the head. COMMON YARROW. ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM. Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order II. Polygamia superfiua. . Essent. Gen. CHAR, me Receptacle chaffy: Calyx Pappus: none:: Calyx ovate, ova imbricated: Florets of the ray about five. Spec. Cuar. furrowed. q m ad-« § apove Leaves bipinnate, naked: the Segments toothed: Stema ee - DESCRIPTION. By aot Ts plant rises a foot. Leaves alternate, bipinnated. Pitinne , ° . 7 ° : Attia pointed. Flowers white, tinged with a little purple beneeath, terminal, forming aflat corymbus. HISTORY. Native of Britain, common in drypastures, and flowers from Julytill October. MEDICAL VIRTUE. A table-spoonfal of the expressed juice of this plant hat ate cording to Haller, cured a cancer of the breast; it has - spitting of blood, and cured the bloody flux; and Dr. jc wald says, that he experienced great advantage from igs 5G himself in the bleeding piles. Stah! boasts of it as @ specilic |