MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 55 



A plant that is easily recognized by means of its long 

 stalks, bearing numerous round cream-coloured or green blos- 

 soms, 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. 



FALSE MITRE-WORT 



Tiarella unifoliata. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: slender, spreading from running rootstocks. Leaves: simple, 

 cordate, acute, obscurely five-to-seven lobed on long fine petioles. 

 Flowers : numerous, in a narrow panicle ; calyx cleft to near the base ; 

 petals five, filiform ; stamens ten. 



The tiny feathery flowers of the False Mitre -wort are found 

 in great quantities in the mountains. Their large heart- 

 shaped leaves appear to carpet the ground about three inches 

 above the soil in the localities where they abound, and their 

 great white masses of delicate bloom have earned for them 

 the name of '' Foam-Flower." The Latin name Tiarella means 

 *'a Httle tiara," and refers to the shape of the capsule, while 

 unifoliata refers to the one leaf on the flower-stalk. 



TRUE MITRE-WORT 



Mitella Breweri. 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 filiform pinnaea. 



The True Mitre-wort is one of the few absolutely green 

 flowers that grow in the mountains ; it derives its name of 

 Mitella^ or Bishop's Cap, from the form of the seed-pod. It 

 differs from the False Mitre -wort, first, in that its blossoms 

 are much more fragile and green, and secondly, in that it is 

 more leafy and is covered with tiny hairs. 



