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The first is Yarrow -- Achillea Millefolium As you can see by the Latin name the first part sounds like Achilles.
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Common vegetation in shallow open water includes milfoils (Millefolium), water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), duck weed (Lemna spp.), and water lilies.
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_Leaves: _ Very finely dissected (_Millefolium_ = thousand leaf), narrowly oblong in outline.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Millefolium_), the daisies, the Dahlia and many others.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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He who shall labour under the disease of watery (or blood-shot) eyes, let him pluck the herb Millefolium up by the roots, and of it make a hoop, and look through it, saying three times, '_Excicumacriosos_;' and let him as often move the hoop to his mouth, and spit through the middle of it, and then plant the herb again. "
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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Namfi notas, quas hocin capite AchiUea, attri - huit Diofcorides, cum eis "quas Stratiote Millefolio (quod no~ firum efi yulgare Millefolium) ideauthor huiufce lihri cap.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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