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BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 
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These beautiful mountain flowers bloom 
Western in early spring, sometimes poking their 
Anemone pretty faces right through a hole melted in 
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ree hs a snow-bank, and the brave little things 
White are quite thickly covered with silky wool 
Spring all over, as if to keep themselves warm. 
Northwest 
The flowers, which often bloom before the 
leaves expand, are about two inches acrcss, with five to 
eight, cream-white sepals, tinged with blue and hairy on 
the outside, and are much less delicate looking than most 
Anemones. The stout stems are very woolly, from six to 
eighteen inches tall, and the leaves are beautiful, cut into 
numerous, very fine divisions, exceedingly feathery and 
pretty. The akenes have long, feathery tails and form 
very large, silky, fluffy heads, which are very handsome 
and conspicuous. 
There are a good many kinds of Caltha, succulent ; 
marsh plants, of temperate and arctic regions; the leaves 
undivided, mostly from the base and more or less heart- 
shaped; the flowers with large, petal-like sepals and no 
petals. This is the Latin name of the Marigold. 
White 
Marigold with a smooth, stout, purplish stem from 
Céltha leptosépala four to eight inches tall, and smooth, light- 
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White green leaves, often veined with purple on 
Summer the under side. The flowers are an inch 
Northwest 
and a quarter across, with eight or ten, 
cream-white sepals, tinged with blue on the outside, and 
pretty golden centers of numerous stamens. This blooms 
at the edge of the retreating snow and reaches an altitude 
of twelve thousand feet. C. palistris, the Yellow Marsh 
Marigold, found in the Northwest and common in the 
East, 
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has beautiful yellow flowers, resembling large Butter- 
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