76 FAMILIAR WILD FLO WEES. 



perhaps the most striking of these, having stems from 

 two to three feet high, and brilliant yellow blossoms over 

 an inch in diameter. The celery-leaved ranunculus, the It. 

 sceleratus, is another very interesting species ; in this the 

 flowers, though very numerous, are by no means conspicuous, 

 as they are individually small in size and of a rather pale 

 yellow. The corn crowfoot, the R. arvensis of scientific 

 nomenclature, is a third species ; it is very ordinarily met 

 with in corn-fields. The leaves are very deeply cut, the 

 flowers rather small ; perhaps the most striking feature 

 being the very quaint and curious form of the fruit that 

 succeeds the blossoms. 



