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certainly not be distinguished by the country people. The French 
name of the present species is aroute. 
Anthemis nobilis, L. Common Chamomile. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common in all parts of the island, especially near the sea. 
Known in the Guernsey patois by the name of Camidve; in 
Normandy called Camomille or Camomille romaine. Formerly it 
used to be planted in garden walks so as to be odoriferous to the 
tread: and in Henry IV., First Part, ii. 4, Falstaff quotes an old 
proverb affirming that ‘ the more it is trodden, the faster it grows.’ 
According to an ancient writer a drooping and apparently dying 
plant will revive if placed near Chamomile. 
Matricaria Parthenium, L. LFeverfew, 
Alien. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Talbots Valley, a few plants in 1890, evidently garden outcasts, 
and without any title to a place in the Flora. But Mr. Andrews 
has since found the plant fairly well established in the valley below 
Les Issues (vii.). It used to spring up as a weed all over my garden 
at Fermain House. 
The term Feverfew, or, as it is often called Featherfew, is a 
corruption of febrifuga, one of the old names of this plant, which, 
according to the herbalists of the Middle Ages, was ‘ good to expell 
feavers and agues.’ Its smell is peculiarly offensive to bees. 
Matricaria inodora, L. Scentless Mayweed, 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Generally distributed and rather common on waysides, borders 
of fields, and waste spots. Var. maritima, L. Found by Mr. 
Andrews at two or three places at the Vale. Probably not un- 
common. 
Matricaria Chamomilla, L. Wild Chamomile. 
Colonist. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common in cultivated and waste ground, especially in the 
low-lying districts. 
The patois name is Amvrogue, a contraction of the word 
Amouréques, by which this species (in common with JZ. zxodora and 
C. Leucanthemum) is known in some parts of Normandy. I am not 
aware that the meaning or derivation of this name has been traced. 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemun, L. Oxeye Daisy. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island, but particularly plentiful on the 
southern cliffs. 
The patois name is Marguerite, which in France belongs to the 
Daisy, but in Guernsey to the Oxeye. Many Composites with white 
tray florets, ‘a silver shield with boss of gold,’ were in olden times 
