Its relative, the feverfew, is botan- 
ically Chrysanthemum Parthenium, 
and was originally a European species 
which has become naturalised in this 
country. Its first use was for medicinal 
purposes, and it made a terribly bitter 
tea, which was liberally bestowed upon 
persons suffering from fevers. 
The camomile, which looks much 
like small daisies, is another of these 
plants, which, travelling from Europe 
by devious ways, has become a settled 
resident here, as well as in Asia, Africa, 
and Australia. 
It is the garden camomile which 
furnishes the aromatic flowers that 
were so frequently used for a blood 
purifier and tonic, in those days when 
our grandmothers devoted a portion 
of each garden patch for medicines 
and simples. 
It was as a valuable adjunct to the 
medicine garden that the chrysanthe- 
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