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the other abundant growth of rocky woods. Its leafage also is intensely 

 green and has about it nuich of the charm which is associated with nearly 

 all the saxifrages. 



FOAM FLOWER. COOLWORT. FALSE niTRE=WORT. 



Tiiwclla cordifolia . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Sua- if rage. U kite. Scentless. Georgia nort/nuard --'/"^, M.iy. 



and westward. 



Flmvers : growing loosely in a raceme at the end of a naked, pubescent scape, 

 their pedicels covered with glandular hairs. Calyx-tube: campanulate, five-lobcd, 

 the divisions white. Petals : five, oblong; raised on cfaws. Stavietis : ten. Styles : 

 two. G//J///6'; tiara-shaped; reflexed; two-valved. Leaves: from the base with 

 long petioles ; broadly ovate, deeply cordate and having from three to seven 

 dentate lobes, pointed or blunt at their apices; their upper surface scattered with 

 hairs while smooth or downy underneath. Scape: erect six to twelve inches high 



With its masses of handsome flowers and usually attractive foliage the 

 cooKvort, as the mountaineers call the plant, is one of the most pleasing of 

 early bloomers. During the summer it is kept busy by producing runners, 

 a means through which it spreads itself abundantly. 



TWO=LEAVED BISHOP'S CAP. niTRE=WORT. 



Mih'lla dipJij'Ua. 



Flotvers: small, growing in a terminal spike-like raceme on a hairy scape about 

 which midway are wrapped two leaves. Calyx : campanulate, five-lobed. Petals: 

 five; much cleft. Stanie/is: ten, slightly exserted. Capstile : flat, shaped like a 

 little cap. Leaves : those from the base with long hairy petioles, broadly ovate, 

 or orbicular; long ])ointed at the apex, cordate at the base, three to five lobed, 

 serrate and incised; bright green and having scattered white hairs on the upper 

 and lower surfaces. The two scape leaves similar, op])osile and sessile or nearly 

 so. Scape : erect; ten to eighteen inches high, pubescent. 



While its foliage is not as handsome as that of Tiarella cordifolia, the 

 Bishop's cap is still a very pleasing plant, and makes, moreover, an attempt 

 at relieving the monotony of its long scape by the presence of two stem 

 leaves. Its names are in allusion to the shape of the young pods, they 

 being thought to be something like a Bishop's cap, or mitre. 



