Caltha

Caltha introloba is an extreme example, flowering under the snow.

Australian Alps montane grasslands 2008

The Marsh Marigold (_Caltha poetarum_) or the Marsh [330]

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Marigold (_Caltha palustris_), growing in moist grass lands, and popularly known as "Mareblobs."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Marsh Marigold _Caltha palustris_ Grows 1-1/2 ft. high.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

Furthermore, the botanical title, Caltha, of the Mare Blob, is got from _calathus_, a small round basket of twigs or osiers made two thousand years and more ago, which the concave golden bowl of the Marsh Marigold was thought to resemble.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Lettuce, for its milky juice obviously, appeared in two bunches on the front of the waist of a woman into whose house I had broken by leaning against a screen door, and a lawn bordered by cowslips, our common name for Caltha palustris, certainly represented a certain lawn that a friend told me had been kept mown by the cows feeding upon it when driven from pasture.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

At this moment one of them was starred with thousands of greenish-white marsh marigolds -- Caltha leptosepala, as I learned afterward to call them, when good Mr. Clark produced, out of his treasures new and old, for my enlightenment, a much-desired copy of Brewer and Watson's Botany of California.

On Foot in the Yosemite 1910

Some cultivated anemones and crowfoots (_Ranunculus_) are of this character, and even the marsh-marigold (_Caltha palustris_) has a petalomanous variety.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

Whoever has seen the watery Avon meadows in April, yellow and twinkling with marsh marigolds when "the lark at heaven's gate sings," appreciates why the commentators incline to identify Shakespeare's Mary-buds with the _Caltha_ of these and our own marshes.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

And there is this in favour of its being the flower meant, that the name signifies the golden blossom of the marish or marsh; but, on the other hand, the Caltha does not fulfil the conditions of Shakespeare's

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868