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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTTERCUP , a name applied to several See also:

species of the genus See also:Ranunculus (q.v.), characterized by their deeply-cut leaves and yellow, broadly See also:cup-shaped See also:flowers. Ranunculus acris and R. bkdbosus are erect, hairy meadow See also:plants, the latter having the See also:stem swollen at the See also:base, and distinguished also by the furrowed See also:flower-stalks and the often smaller flowers with reflexed, not spreading, sepals. R. repens, See also:common on See also:waste ground, produces See also:long runners by means of which it rapidly covers the ground. The plants are native in the See also:north temperate to See also:arctic zones of the Old See also:World, and have been introduced in See also:America.

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