CORN BUTTERCUP 



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Corn Buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis, L.) 



No trace of achenes of this pest to the farmer has been found in 

 Pre- or Post-glacial beds. It frequents the Warm Temperate Zone, 

 including Europe, 

 Temperate Asia, 



India, North Africa. 

 It is more or less con- 

 fined to cultivated 

 areas, and so is absent 

 from North Devon, 

 Monmouth, occurring 

 in South Wales only 

 in Carmarthen, only 

 in Montgomery, 



Flint, and Denbigh 

 in North Wales, 

 throughout the Mer- 

 sey district, but not 

 in Mid Lanes. In 

 Scotland it is confined 

 to Kirkcudbright, 

 Ayr, Lanark, Ber- 

 wick, Haddington, 

 Edinburgh, Stirling, 

 Perth, stretching from 

 Perthshire to the 

 South of England 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 is, according to Watson, a colonist. It is a 

 regular companion of Fool's Parsley, A/opecurus agrestis, Venus' 

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

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



CORN Bi'TTERCL'P (Ranunculus arvensis, L.) 



