NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
seem to spread and multiply as freely as in its native soil. 
It is one of our most lovely native Spring flowers. It is a 
pity that, with the march of civilization, we shall soon lose 
its fair pure blossoms. It is easily cultivated, and repays 
care by the increase in size of the flowers, ripening the 
seeds perfectly and freely. 
TALL ButTtrercurp—Ranunculus acris (L.). 
We see in Canada this old familiar meadow-flower of our 
childhood bright and gay, growing abundantly in low wet 
pasture lands, where it becomes to the eye of the farmer a 
troublesome, unprofitable weed, rejected by the cattle for 
its bitter, acrid qualities. Yet it is pleasant to meet its 
old familiar face in a foreign land, where often the sight 
of some simple flower will awaken tender recollections—of~ 
early scenes of sunny grassy meadows, where we wandered 
in days of thoughtless childhood, free of care as the lark 
that carolled above our heads in the glad sunshine; happy 
days brought back to memory in all their freshness by the 
sight of a simple yellow Buttercup blossoming in Canadian 
wilds and wastes, despised and rejected by others but 
precious to the heart of the lonely immigrant, who hails 
it as a tiny link between himself and his early home life. 
EarLy Crowroot—Ilanunculus fascicularis (Mubl.). 
This native species of Ranunculus is one of our earliest 
spring flowers. It grows low and spreading to the ground, 
the hairy foliage giving a hoary tint to the divided coarsely- 
cut leaves; the blossoms are of a pale yellow color, not as 
large as the common Buttercup. The root is a cluster of 
thick fleshy fibres. 
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