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n. - A genus of swamp herb in the buttercup family; marsh marigold.

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  • Caltha introloba is an extreme example, flowering under the snow.
  • Loren Larson, managing partner with Caltha, a Minneapolis-based environmental consultant for private industry.
  • I forget, however, that it would be impossible, I suppose, to get hardly any except the Caltha, and if ever I stumble on that plant in seed I will try it.
  • He gives from many that might be used, the example of marshmarigold (Caltha palustris) which has over eighty local names in Britain, about sixty in France and over one...
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