. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. â 0 ^-C^i^^' Jl?^ (a^r^der) ar)d LaloQ. f ^ ^ CANADIAN WILD-FLOWERS.âII. In considering our wild flowers, we shall group them according to their families, describing each under the head of the family to which it belongs, commencing with the BUTTERCUP This is known to botanists as the Ranunculus family, and is also called the Cnnvfoot family. It embraces cjuite a variety of plants, some of which climb by their leaf stalks, some are found in marshy places, others grow in dry, sandy soil, some prefer the shad
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. â 0 ^-C^i^^' Jl?^ (a^r^der) ar)d LaloQ. f ^ ^ CANADIAN WILD-FLOWERS.âII. In considering our wild flowers, we shall group them according to their families, describing each under the head of the family to which it belongs, commencing with the BUTTERCUP This is known to botanists as the Ranunculus family, and is also called the Cnnvfoot family. It embraces cjuite a variety of plants, some of which climb by their leaf stalks, some are found in marshy places, others grow in dry, sandy soil, some prefer the shade, and others the open sunshine. We will first describe some of the plants that have given the name to the family, and afterwards some of the other members which will be interesting and pretty for the flower border. You will find in many meadows a bright yellow flower during the months of June, July and August, that is an immigrant from Europe w^hich has taken too kindly to our soil and climate. It grows from two to three feet high, the leaves are thrice divided, and each division is again parted, not so deeply, but usually into three lobes, which are again irregularly notched and cut, and the leaf stalk (which is called the petiole) is furrowed on the upper side and covered with fine, short hairs ; leaves are also so covered, and likewise the flower-stalk, which botanists call the peduncle. The flowers are borne singly upon a tall, branching stalk, which is leafless except at the base of the branches, the stalk leaves becoming smaller as the stalk grows in length until they are mere bracts, which is the name given to the leafy appendages from the axil of which the flower stalk arises. Axil is the angle on the upper side, formed by a branch with the stem from which it springs, or by a leaf-stalk, or, when the leaf has no stalk, by the leaf itself, or by the flower-stalk. When a leaf or flower has no stalk it is said to be sessile. Now let us examine the flower. We notice firs
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