BVTTERCVI^.—Bammculus hulhosus. 



Class PoLYANDRiA. Order Poltgyxia. Nat. Orel. Ranunculace^. 

 Crowfoot Tribe, 



This gay meadow flower gives to the land- 

 scape a bright and cheerful aspect, when May 

 has scattered it by thousands over the grassy 

 meadow, where it contrasts with the multitude 

 of silver daisies. This flower has an acrid 

 bulbous root, which is emetic in its properties. 

 Rather later in the year, two other species of 

 crowfoot or buttercup glisten in the grass of 

 the meads, and by every way-side ; these are 

 the Creeping Crowfoot, and theUpright Meadow 

 Crowfoot. Both are very similar in their 

 appearance to this flower, but the small leaves 

 forming the flower cup are, in the bulbous 

 species, always turned back and drooping. 

 AH the Crowfoots contain much acridity, and 

 they are mostly disliked by cattle on this 

 account. The June or Creeping Buttercup is 

 a very noxious plant on pasture-lands, for it 

 has creeping roots which render it very difficult 

 of extermination, and if the cattle happen to 

 eat it, it will blister their mouths. There is a 

 little yellow Buttercup, growing on tall slender 



