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  • Yes, indeed it is a beautiful cluster; it is the marsh-marigold, and looks like a gigantic buttercup; it is sometimes in flower as early as March, and continues to blossom for three months or more.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • "_And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray_."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • Our primrose is not the English primrose, any more than it was our robin who tucked up the babes in the wood; our cowslip is not the English cowslip, it is the English marsh-marigold, -- Tennyson's "wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • [438-10] The common marsh-marigold was called _peony_ in some localities.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Upon the neighboring rocks the columbine and harebell held high revel, but he did not notice them so much as a new sight that flashed upon his eye; for the pool where the two streamlets joined was like a nest which the marsh-marigold had taken for its home.

    King Midas: a Romance Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Before her lay the boggy place where she came in all warm seasons of the year for one thing or another: the wild marsh-marigold, -- good for greens, -- thoroughwort, and the root of the sweet-flag.

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • 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

  • The root is sometimes mistaken for that of edible plants and the young leaves for those of the marsh-marigold, which are edible when cooked.

    On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

  • The centre of the eyot is yellow with patches of marsh-marigold in the hot spring days.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

  • And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray;

    The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Various 1878

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