146 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



and reddish, round, and with wavy margins. It is a pe- 

 culiar but not an attractive plant. 



Heuchera glabra, or Smooth Alum Root, has roundish 

 lobed leaves which are doubly toothed; the cream-coloured 

 flowers grow in a loose branching cluster and the style is 

 much exserted. 



Heuchera glabella, or Bristly Alum Root, differs from 

 the foregoing species in having leathery round-toothed 

 leaves, the teeth of which are bristly at the apex and have 

 marginal hairs. The white flowers are small and grow in 

 a loose branching spike, each branch being subtended by a 

 hairy bristly bract. 



TELLIMA 

 Tellima grandiflora. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: hispid-pubescent, from short tufted rootstocks. Leaves: 

 round-cordate; three-to-nine lobed, coarsely toothed, on long petioles. 

 Flowers: cream-colour, with rose-pink margins, on very short reflexed 

 pedicels; calyx thick, cylindraceous, with turbinate tube and short, 

 triangular, erect lobes, inflated ; petals laciniately cut into filiform seg- 

 ments, narrowed below to a short claw. 



A plant that is easily recognized by means of its long 

 stalks, bearing numerous round cream-coloured or green 

 blossoms, which are set closely against it, their edges rose 

 colour and deeply fringed. It grows from one to two feet 

 high and has quantities of foliage, the leaves being large, 

 rounded, and lobed, with fine white hairs standing up all 

 over them. 



MITREWORT 

 Mitella Brewcri. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: pubescent with brownish hairs. Leaves: round-cordate, 

 three-to-five lobed, toothed. Flowers: small, -green, in simple spicate 

 racemes ; calyx short, campanulate ; petals pectinately pinnate, with fili- 

 form pinnaea. 



