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Buttercup Family Of Flowering: RANUNCULACEAE, ra-nung-ku-la'se-e, the crowfoot or buttercup family of flowering plants, containing about 35 genera and 1,500 species, widely distributed over the earth but most abundant in the north temperate and Arctic zones. In the tropics the plants occur chiefly at higher altitudes; in the Arctic certain buttercups (Ranunculus) grow at almost the highest latitudes of land. About 20 genera and 300 species of Ranunculaceae are native to the United States.
Confucius (551^179 B.C.) formulated the Golden Rule in a negative form: "Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you" (Analects 15:23).
GOLDEN SEAL is a hardy perennial herb (Hy-drastis canadensis) of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) whose rootstock provides an alkaloid used as a medicinal tonic. The simple ground rootstock is still used, but more purified preparations are now preferred.
The large-flowered clematis are divided into several groups according to their parentage. These groups are Florida, flowering mainly in early and mid-summer; Jackmanii, flowering mainly in late summer and early fall; Lanuginosa, flowering at different times between mid-summer and the early fall; Patens, flowering mainly in early to mid-summer; Texensis, flowering mainly from late summer to mid-fall and Viticella, also flowering mainly from late summer to mid-fall. |
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