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Ranunculus eschscholtzii is a species of buttercup flower known by the common name Eschscholtz's buttercup. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The species name honors Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz , an Imperial Russian botanist and entomologist active on the West Coast in the 1820s and 1830s.
Prosthetic eye and glasses made for an injured World War I soldier by pioneering plastic surgeon Johannes Esser. "Making glass eye", c. 1915–1920. Glass eye being moulded under heat, 1938. The earliest known evidence of the use of ocular prosthesis is that of a woman found in Shahr-I Sokhta, Iran [1] dating back to 2900–2800 BC. [2]
Little-leaf buttercup; Small-flower crowfoot; Kidney-leaf buttercup; Small-flowered buttercup; North America; Ranunculus acaulis DC. [6] Dune buttercup; Sand buttercup; Shore buttercup; New Zealand; Ranunculus acer auct. = Ranunculus acris: Ranunculus acetosellifolius Boiss. Southwestern Europe; Ranunculus aconitifolius L. Aconite-leaf ...
Ranunculus andersonii is a species of buttercup known by the common name Anderson's buttercup. [1] It is native to the western United States , including the Great Basin and surrounding regions, where it grows in sagebrush , woodlands, and other habitat.
The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens, which has extremely tough and tenacious roots. Two other species are also widespread, the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus and the much taller meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris.
Beckwithia andersonii (A.Gray) Jeps. (= Ranunculus andersonii), Anderson's buttercup, native to the Western United States Beckwithia glacialis subsp. glacialis (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve (= Ranunculus glacialis), the glacier buttercup, occurring in boreal and alpine areas of Europe (including Iceland, Jan Mayen and Svalbard)
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Ranunculus flabellaris is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup genus, Ranunculus, known by the common name yellow water buttercup or the yellow water crowfoot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is native to much of North America , including the southern half of Canada and most of the United States .