Ranters
a name given by way of reproach to a denomination of Christians which sprang up in 1645. They called RANUNCULACEÆ themselves "Seekers," the members maintaining that they were seeking for the true Church and its ordinances, and the Scriptures, which were lost. The name "Ranters" is also applied to the Primitive Methodists, who formed themselves into a society in 1810, and who were in favor of street preaching.
RANUNCULACEÆ, crowfoots; an order of hypogynous exogens. Herbs, rarely shrubs, leaves often much divided, with dilated, half-clasping petioles, often with processes like stipules. Flowers typically polypetalous, large, gailycolored, sometimes apetalous, but with colored sepals. Found in cold damp places in Europe, North America, etc.
They are acrid, and often poisonous.
Tribes: Clemateæ, Anemoneæ, Ranunculeæ, Helleboreæ, and Actæeæ.