158 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



been known to break asunder. In fact, to watch this little plant 

 is a moral lesson in the achievements that can be brought about 

 by quiet will power. 



FOAM FLOWER. FALSE niTRE-WORT. 



Tia rella cordifblia . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Saxifrage. White. Scentless. Neiu England April, May. 



soutJiward and westward. 



Flowers: growing in a raceme on a high scape. Calyx: of four parted 

 sepals. Corolla: of five clawed petals. Stamens : ten ; long, with orange-red 

 anthers. Pistil- one, with two styles. Leaves: from the base ; cordate; 

 lobed ; very mottled. Scape: about a foot high ; hairy. The plant is from a 

 rootstock and is reproduced by runners that spread in summer. 



A little boy whose sister ran to him with her hands full of 

 the delicate foam-flower that she had gathered in the woods, 

 threw it down in disgust and said : " Sister, it has forgotten its 

 clothes." He missed the leaves that he had been accustomed 

 to seeing on flowers and was indignant at the long, naked 

 stem. 



NITRE-WORT. BISHOP'S CAP. 



M it ell a diphjlla. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Saxifrage. White. Scentless. New England southward. May. 



The mitre-wort is very similar in effect to the foam-flower, 

 although its beauty is of a much more fragile type. Its stems 

 are low and hairy and it protects itself with a few stem 

 leaves which are opposite and sessile. 



BUNCH-BERRY. DWARF CORNEL. (Plate LXXX.) 



Cornus Canadensis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Dogivood. White and green. Scentless. New York westward. June. 



Flmvers : very small, greenish and wrapped about by an involucre that ap- 

 pears like four pointed sepals. Calyx: tiny; four-cleft. Corolla: of four 

 spreading petals. Stamens: four. Pistil: one. Fruit: a bunch of closely 

 clustered, round, red berries. Leaves: ovate ; pointed ; nerved; the upper 

 ones whorled and apparently forming a resting place for the flowers. Stem : 

 erect ; bearing below a number of scale-like leaves. 



A proud little thing is the bunch-berry, and although it is 



