APRIL AND MAY. 



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Foam-Flower, or 

 False Mitrewort. 



Tiarella conlifolia. 



character. In Campton it is in its prime about the 

 10th of May. 



Tlie foam-flower grows ^^ 

 beside the little star- 

 flower, and blooms 

 about the same time. 

 All through August and September 

 we may find the fuzzy-surfaced, un- 

 evenly colored green leaves of the 

 plant, in shape similar to small, nar- 

 row maple leaves, growing thickly on 

 the forest floor near some babbling 

 brook. Years ago, when a boy, the 

 symmetrical leaves attracted my eye, 

 and I carried a number of the plants 

 from the White Mountains to my 

 home in Brooklyn, where they were 

 planted in the back yard. 

 Here they flourished fair- 

 ly well, and I first be- 

 came acquainted with the 

 fuzzy little blossoms in 

 the following spring. Al- 

 though there is nothing 

 especially attractive in the 

 fiower, it is dainty, and 



common enough in the Foam-Flower. 



