62 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
The ‘yellow tilth’ is chiefly the effect in the 
landscape of the rich yellow flowers of the 
several species of Ranunculus, the Buttercup 
family. Three of them have now to be noticed 
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RANUNCULUS. 
among the grass, of which the bulbous Crow- 
foot, R. dulbosus, is the earliest. You will at 
once know it by the reflexed sepals of the 
calyx, which turn down and clasp the stem, 
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