HEUCHERA 



the inclined or drooping branches of a panicle. The plant should 

 have half shade and in winter needs some slight protection. 



Tiarella, False Mitrewort, Tiarilla cordifdlia, is a low little 

 herb whose feathery spikes of white flowers appearing in mass 

 from great beds in the open woodland is one of the pleasant sights 

 of early spring in the region of the Great Lakes. The leaves 

 fairly carpet the forest floor and suggest maple leaves, though 

 rough and hairy. The pretty name, Tiarella, little turban, refers 

 to the form of the seed-vessel which is cleft like a tiara. The 

 plant is excellent for either rock garden or wild border. Mitella 

 diphjilla, Bishop's Cap, is a more delicate plant though very simi- 

 lar. Its little blossoms are so cut and fringed and spread that 

 they look like snow crystals, and each is about the size of one. 



HEUCHERA. CRIMSON BELLS 



Heuchera sangHinea. 



Heuchera, in honor of Johann von. Heucher, Professor of Botany 

 at Wittenberg; 1677-1747. 



A plant recently introduced from New Mexico and Arizona. 



Root. — ^Acrid and astringent. 



Leaves. — Radical, forming a cluster rather close to the ground; 

 orbicular, cordate, crenate. 



Flower scape. — Downy, about two feet high, bearing a one-sided, 

 panicled raceme. 



Calyx. — A crimson, five-Iobed, drooping bell. 



Petals. — Five, minute, borne on the calyx-bell, alternate with its lobes. 



Stamens. — Five, inserted on the calyx-bell. 



Ovary. — One-celled. 



Heuchera sanguinea, like so many of the saxifrages, grows in 

 tufts, forming a cluster of radical leaves from whose centre rises 

 several scapes, each bearing a racemose panicle of small, deep-red 

 bells. Although red is the typical color, the bells vary in- the 

 cultivated forms from red to white. This little Heuchera bell is 



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