Camomile

kam-o-mil, or Chamomile, a plant closely allied to the yarrow and ox-eye daisy. An exceedingly bitter medicine is obtained by drying the daisy-like flowers and steeping them in twenty times their weight of water. Camomile is an old-fashioned emetic and a remedy for fever. It is cultivated as a field crop in parts of England. A showy relative of the medicinal camomile, the golden marguerite, is used by florists as a border plant. May weed, an ill-scented occupant of roadsides, is a humbler and less acceptable relative. See Medicine