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Corn Buttercup (Ramiiuulus .irvcnsis, I,.) 



Xi) tr.uT ot acliLMics ot this [k-sI Id tlu- l.ininr h,is Ix-cn found in 

 Pn- or I'ost-ylacial beds, li frctiuenls ihc W'.iini i'fni])(.-ralc Zoni-, 

 includin>4' Europe, 

 1 \'ni[)t'rate Asia, 



India, North Africa. 

 It is more or less con- 

 fined to cultivated 

 areas, and so is absent 

 from North Devon, 

 Monmouth, orrurrinL^ 

 in South W'alrs nnl\ 

 in Carmarthen, onh 

 in Montgomery, 



Flint, and Denbii^h 

 in North Wales, 

 throughout the Mer- 

 sey district, but not 

 in Mid Lanes. In 

 .Scotland it is confined 

 to Kirkcudbri;„^ht, 



A\ r, Lanark. Ber- 

 wick, Haddington. 

 Edinburgh, Stirling. 

 Perth, stretching from 

 Perthshire to the 

 South of Englantl in 

 general. It is found 

 in Ireland around 

 Dublin. 



The Corn Butter- 

 cup is essentially a 

 plant of the cultivated 

 districts, being a 

 regular denizen of the 

 cornfield, in which it 



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is, according to Watson, a colonist. It is a 

 regular companion of Fool's Parsley, Alopcciinis agrcstis, X'enus' 

 Comb, and similar followers of the plough, and it may be found with 

 them also around stackvards. Being a tall plant it is bound up with 



