A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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Flowers about ^ in. wide ; fruit long beaked 



Marsh Buttercup no. 356 



Leaf divisions not deeply cut 



Flowers about 3^ in. wide . . . Rough Buttercup no. 357 

 Flowers about i in. wide .... Hairy Buttercup no. 358 

 For other plants in this family see Nos. 238-240, 306, 309-311, 329, 

 338-339, 430, 440, 441, 442, 498-499, 563, 564, 946. 



350. Globe-flower. Trollius laxus. A buttercup-like plant 

 of wet meadows, with much divided leaves and a solitary 

 flower. Petals slightly incurved, the flower thus appearing 

 globe-like, pale lemon yellow. Fruit a collection of many- 

 seeded dry beaked pods in a head-like cluster. Conn, to 

 Delaware, and west to Michigan. June. Fig. 350. 



351. Water Spearwort. Ranunculus ohtusiuscvdus. {R. 

 laxkaulis.) Buttercup-like, but with long, narrow, pointed 

 -talkless, and uncut leaves, that may or may not have a few 

 -mall marginal teeth. Flowers about ^ in, wide, yellow, in 

 a loose cluster. In marshes. Maine and Ontario to Georgia, 

 and westward. July. 



352. Kidney-leaved Crowfoot. Ranunculus abortizms. A 

 low plant not usually over 18 in. high, the basal leaves kidney- 

 shaped, uncut and wavy margined. Stem leaves divided into 

 wedge-shaped segments. Flowers not over % in. wide, the 

 petals inconspicuous. In moist places Labrador and Nova 

 Scotia to Florida, and westward. May. Fig, 352. There are 

 several closely related species with uncut and roundish basal 

 leaves. 



