22 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
earliest of the Buttercup Family, which decks 
our banks and the damp fields with its golden 
stars in every half hour of March sunshine, 
closing as rapidly when the sky becomes dull. 
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WOOD STRAWBERRY. 
It has heart-shaped leaves, and at the root 
are curious fig-shaped knobs, whence the name 
ficaria, from ficus, a fig. The Poet Words- 
