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 
Tiarélla 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’SCAP. MITREWORT 
Mitélla diphjlla. Saxifrage Family. 
The form of the young seed-pot of this plant sug- 
gested its Latin name, from mitra,acap. ‘The slender, 
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