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The buttercup (Ranunculus acris) is a perennial herb of the family Ranunculaceae. The lower leaves are deeply divided into three to seven, ovate or wedge-shaped and toothed or further divided into segments. The stem leaves are similar but smaller. The flowers have five erect sepals, five glossy yellow petals and numerous stamens.
Buttercups were so named because it was thought they increased the butter yield when cows were fed on pasture containing the flowers. However, it is more likely that such pastures as contained buttercups were sound, dry old pastures which afforded better fodder for the cows, and the presence of the buttercups simply
Indicated the quality of the pasture without themselves contributing.
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Celandine is the name of two British flowers. Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) belongs to the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is an erect branched herb from thirty to fifty centimetres tall with much-divided leaves and yellow flowers succeeded by narrow, thin pods. Greater celandine grows on wasteland and in hedgerows.
Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus Ficaria) also known as swallowwort, pilewort etc is a small low-growing perennial herb of the Buttercup family with club-shaped tubers, branched ascending stems, smooth, heart-shaped leaves which are sheathed at the base and bright yellow flowers, each with three sepals and between eight and twelve petals, borne on a stout stalk from the leaf axils. It was thought to be a cure for piles.
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Crowfoot is a popular name for some plants of the genus Ranunculus.
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In botany, an etaerio or eterio is a collection of distinct indehiscent carpels, either dry upon a fleshy receptacle as the strawberry, or dry upon a dry receptacle as the ranunculus, or fleshy upon a dry receptacle as the raspberry, the parts being small drupes.
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Glacier crowfoot (Ranunculus glacialis) is a nearly hairless perennial European plant, with prostrate or ascending, simple or branched stems. The basal leaves are fleshy, three-lobed, each lobe being stalked and further divided into rectangular or elliptical lobes. The stem leaves are similar but smaller and stalkless. The flowers have five sepals covered in red-brown hairs, and five white petals.
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Ranunculus is a genus of herbaceous plants of the family Ranunculaceae. They have entire, lobed or compounded leaves, and usually panicled white or yellow flowers. The species are numerous, and almost exclusively inhabit the northern hemisphere. The British species include the buttercup and spearwort.
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Spearwort is a plant of the genus Ranunculus. There are two species, the great (Ranunculus lingua) and the lesser spearwort (Ranunculus flammula). Both are native to Europe and temperate Asia and are found in Britain chiefly in marshes and ditches. Great spearwort has a hollow stem about one metre tall, with large, stalkless lanceolate undivided leaves that clasp the stem at their base. The flowers are golden yellow in colour, fine and about three centimetres across. The lesser spearwort is similar but smaller, with the lower leaves stalked and oval, the upper leaves stalkless and lance-shaped.
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The Renoncule was a Built-built French Lobelia Class corvette of 925 tons displacement launched in 1941 as HMS Ranunculus. The Renoncule was powered by two oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 15.5 knots and carried a complement of 85. She was armed with one 4 inch anti-aircraft gun; two 57 mm anti-aircraft guns; one 40 mm anti-aircraft gun; two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and six depth charge throwers.
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