146 FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 



" All the flowers you call buttercups," said her 

 father, "belong to the RANUNCULUS tribe, the word 

 being formed from the Latin for a frog (rana). 

 Can you guess why they are so named ?" 



CHEEPING CROWFOOT. 



(Ranunculus repens.") 



Eobert guessed that it was because frogs are 

 yellow ; Mary guessed that it was because they 

 have bright eyes; Henry guessed that it was 

 because they are fond of damp places. And 

 Henry was right. 



"Buttercups, larkspurs, columbines, anemones, 

 hellebore, monk's-hood, pseony, pheasant's eye. 



