CORN CROWFOOT. 



JtaniDicitliis ari'cnsis. Nat. Ord., 

 Hamtnctilaceee. 



HE corn crowfoot, like the scarlet 

 poppy or the corn marygold, 

 is one of the flowers that 

 are to be specially searched for 

 in corn-fields, though, like the 

 flowers we have named, it may 

 occasionally be found growing 

 up amongst other crops. Hence 

 one old writer terms it "the 

 crowfoot of the ploughed fields," 

 and another "the crowfoot of 

 the fallowed field"; and its 

 specific name arvensis and the 

 old herbal name Ranunculus 

 arvorum each point in the same 

 direction and carry the same 

 significance. Unlike many of 

 our English plants, it seems to have no alternative names, 

 but is always and everywhere the corn crowfoot, with the 

 exception of the very local name of hedgehog, a name 

 derived from the prickly ball of seeds. Our readers will 

 on inspection of our illustration feel with us no doubt 

 that the name is not by any means a bad one, and shows 



