Sayifraae Jfamili?. 



Nancy-over-the Ground. Tim-ella cordifoUa. 



White Cool-wort (N. Y.) 

 False Mitre-Wort. 



Found on wooded slopes, in moist nooks during May. 



The root throws out slender runners, which bear leaves, and 

 flowers on upright, 4- to 8-inch long, hairy stems. 



The leaf is heart-shaped at the base, its lobes overlapping the 

 stem, and the margin is cut and toothed irregularly into a faint sem- 

 blance of a maple-seedling leaf ; the edge is slightly curling, the 

 noticeable ribs are hairy underneath, and the fibre is coarse ; the color 

 is green, often speckled with rusty spots. 



The 5 small, pointed petals spread alternately with the 5 blunt- 

 tipped calyx-parts ; the flower is all pure white, except for the orange 

 tips to the 10 stamens; the long, sharp-pointed pistil is conspicuous. 

 These pretty feathery flowers, on their little foot-stems, are arranged in 

 a loose spike, borne by the long, sometimes leafy, flower-stem. 



Nancy spreads rapidly, carpeting the earth with its close-growing 

 flat leaves above which the flower-spires rise alertly. The foliage turns 

 brown and gray early in the summer. 



