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496. Petals, or colored sepals, 5 or more. (Nos. 497-525.) 



Leaves not compound, or divided, *or lobed, or cut no. 511 



Leaves compound, or divided, or lobed, or cut 



Flowering stalks (or the plant) 10 in. high or more . . . no. 507 

 Flowering stalks (or the plant) 7 in. high or less 



Leaves compound and with 3 leaflets no. 502 



Leaves merely lobed or cut, not compound, and with 3 

 leaflets 



Flowers in terminal racemes Foam-flower no. 497 



Flower solitary at the end of the stalk 

 Petals none; petal-like sepals 7-12 ... Hepatica no. 498 

 Petals and sepals present 



Flowers }i in. wide or less Gold-thread no. 499 



Flowers i in. wide or more 



Sepals 2 ; leaves 5-^-lobed Bloodroot no. 500 



Sepals 4 ; leaves ■2-lobed Twin-leaf no. 501 



497. Foam-flower. Tiarclla cordifolia. {Saxifragaccac.) A 

 hairy woods plants, mostly in mountainous regions, and not 

 over 8 in. high. Leaves basal, heart-shaped at the base, 3-7 

 lobed, toothed, 2-4 in. long, long-stalked. Flowers white, 

 in a terminal raceme, not over Yz in. wide. Fruit a dry pod. 

 Nova Scotia and Ontario to Georgia, and westward to Indi- 

 ana and Michigan. May. Fig. 497. For other plants of this 

 family see Nos. 258, 509, 510, 512, and 522. 



498. Hepatica. Hepatica Hepatica, {Hepatica triloba.) (Ra- 

 niificiilaccac.) A hairy woods plant with kidney-shaped, 3- 

 lobed, half evergreen leaves that are about 2 in. wide, and 



