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it will in a few hours raife a bliftcr. Strolling 

 beggar.", have been known fometimes purpofely 

 to make fores with it, in order the more readily 

 to move compafTion. 



hulhcfus 7. RANUNCULUS calycibus retroflexis, pednnculis 

 fulcatis, caule eredlo, foliis compofitis. Sp. fh 

 778. {Ger. em, ^SZ- f^ ^' ^^^- ^^^^* ^- 3^- /• 4^ 

 Bulbous Crowfoot, or Butter-cups. AngHs, 

 In meadows and paftures frequent. % . V. 



It has a bulbous root, fhapcd like a fmall turncp ; 

 the leaves are hairy, and divided to the bafe into 

 three lobes, the middle one of which Hands on 

 a footftalk ; thefe lobes are again fubdivlded half 

 way down into three others, which are Iharply 

 indented on their edges : the petals are of a 

 fliining yellow color, having a nectariferous pore 

 at their bafe, of a bluntly triangular form : the 

 Stamina are about 60 : the Anthera acuminated. 



The whole plant is extremely acrid and corrofivc, 

 efpecially the frefh roots, which will readily raife 

 a blifter, and as fafely as Cantharides \ and yet 

 notwithftanding this corrofive quality, the roots 

 Avhen boiled become fo mild as to be eatable. 



npem 8. RANUNCULUS calycibus patulis, pedunculis 

 fulcatis, ftolonibus repentibus, foliis compofitis. 

 Lin. fyft, nat. p. 379. Sp. pL 779. (Ger. em, 951. 

 /.I. Blakwell. /. 31. Pet, herb, t, 38./. T^'d) 

 Creeping Crowfoot. JngTis, 



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