WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



and a five-parted light green calyx. They continue to 

 bloom into May and are found from New Brunswick 

 to Minnesota, south to Georgia and Tennessee. 



FALSE MITREWORT. FOAM-FLOWER. 

 COOLWORT 



Tiarella cordifolia. Saxifrage Family. 

 The form of the pistil of the False Mitrewort is 

 responsible for its Latin name, meaning a little tiara or 

 turban. The slender, hairy flowering stalk rises from 

 six to twelve inches high from the rootstock or runners, 

 as do the long-stemmed and often mottled leaves. 

 The latter are broadly heart-shaped at the base and are 

 unevenly and sharply lobed and toothed. They are 

 sparingly hairy above, and downy on the veinings 

 beneath. The five clawed, white, pointed-oblong 

 petals are supported with a white bell-shaped calyx; 

 and the ten long, slender, orange-tipped stamens pro- 

 ject and give the flower a soft, fuzzy appearance. The 

 flowers are loosely clustered in terminal, feathery and 

 graceful spires. The Coolwort grows in dense masses 

 and in the late summer the foliage becomes discoloured 

 and brown. It is found in bloom during April and May 

 in rich, moist, rocky woods from Nova Scotia to Ontario 

 and Minnesota, and south in the mountain districts to 

 Georgia, Indiana and Michigan. 



TWO-LEAVED-BISHOP'S CAP. MITREWORT 



Mitella diphylla. Saxifrage Family. 

 The form of the young seed-pot of this plant sug- 

 gested its Latin name, from mitra, a cap. The slender* 



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