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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Buttercup
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a name applied to several species of the genus Ranunculus, characterized by their deeply-cut leaves and yellow, broadly cup-shaped flowers. Ranunculus acris and R. bulbosus are erect, hairy meadow plants, the latter having the stem swollen at the base, and distin guished also by the furrowed flower-stalks and the often smaller flowers with reflexed, not spreading, sepals. R. repens, common on waste ground, produces long runners by means of which it rapidly covers the ground. The plants are native in the north temperate to arctic zones of the Old World, and have been introduced in America.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Buttercup'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/buttercup.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Buttercup'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/buttercup.html. 1910.
