The taste is mild, the milk not abundant, and of a yellowish color, "resembling the juice of celandine or the liquid secreted from the mouth of grasshoppers."
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
They have watched it from winter to spring; they have seen the lesser celandine give way to pink clover and sorrel, and the grass shoot up from an inch to a foot.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
Tintern Abbey, about Whitsuntide, is one large white tapestry of celandine.
"The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses"
Robert Charles Hope