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are of a much redder tint than we usually associate with 

 this beautiful flower. There, though, is a plant with white 

 flowers, and there is another with flowers of the ordinary 



FIG. 1. LESSER CELANDINE OR PILEWORT (Ranunculus ficaria). 



colour; all are equally strongly scented, but the blossoms 

 of the last are rather narrower than those of the redder 

 kind. As we drink in the perfume, Shakespeare's lines 

 forcibly recur to us, in which he speaks of 



