Leaves without stipules.

Crowfoot family.

Genus ranunculus.
Botanical name, Ranunculus bulbosus." "Jerusalem! what a flower! Pistols and crows' feet, and Polly put the kettles on, and Angy sperms and all the rest of 'em! If that's your botany, I won't take any more, thank you," said Ben, as he paused as hot and red as if he had been running a race.
"Yes, you Will; you'll learn that all by heart, and then I shall give you a dandelion to do.

You'll like that, because it means dent de lion, or lion's tooth; and I'll show them to you through my glass.

You've no idea how interesting it is, and what heaps of pretty things you'll see," answered Thorny, who had already discovered how charming the study was, and had found great satisfaction in it, since he had been forbidden more active pleasures.
"What's the good of it, anyway ?" asked Ben, who would rather have been set to mowing the big field than to the task before him.
"It tells all about it in my book here,--'Gray's Botany for Young People.' But I can tell you what use it is to us," continued Thorny, crossing his legs in the air and preparing to argue the matter, comfortably lying flat on his back.