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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CELANDINE , Chelidonium majus, a member of the See also:

POPPY

poppy See also:

FAMILY

family, an erect branched See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb from 1 to 2 ft. high with a yellow juice, much divided leaves, and yellow See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers nearly an See also:

INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch across, succeeded by a narrow thin pod opening by a pair of thin valves, separating upwards. The plant grows in See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste places and hedgerows, and is probably an See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape from cultivation. The lesser celandine is a See also:

SPECIES

species of See also:

RANUNCULUS

Ranunculus (R. Ficaria), a small See also:

low-growing herb with smooth See also:

heart-shaped leaves and See also:

bright yellow flowers about an inch across, See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne each on a stout stalk springing from a See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf-axil. It flowers in See also:

early See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, in pastures and waste-places.

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