52 MEDICINAL HERBS AND POLSONOUS PLANTS 



Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa). 



White flower tinged with jDurple or pink. 

 Leaves appear after flower. 



Carpels become tailless achenes like those of the 

 Buttercup. 



Buttercup Group: — 



1. Field Buttercup (Ramincnhis acris). 



Yellow flower with round smooth stalk (fig. 

 24, a). 



2. Bulbous Crowfoot {Ranuncuhvs hulhosns). 



Yellow flower with reflexed calyx and fiir- 

 rotved stem (fig. 24,6). 



Fig. 24. -ff, Fieltl Buttercup. ?>. c, Root and Flower of Bulbous Crowfoot. 



3. Creeping Crowfoot (Ranimculus repens). 



Yellow flower ^\\th furrowed stalk and creep- 

 ing stem. 



4. Spearwort {Rannnenlus Flammvld). 



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Yellow flower lialf the size of Buttercup. 

 Long, narrow, pointed leaves with a toothed 



margin (fig. 25). 

 Grows in wet places. 

 Stem lies flat on orround. 



