72 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
Earty Saxirrace. The rock-loving Early 
Saxifrage is an abundant plant in the eastern 
states, especially in hilly or mountainous regions. 
It will flourish where there is very little soil to 
hold it in place and is one of the flowers most 
likely to be found in early summer toward the 
tops of rocky hills and mountains. It prevents 
nectar robbery by ants and other wingless insects 
by the sticky hairs upon the main stems. Its 
flowers are adapted to the visits of short-tongued 
winged insects of many kinds and cross-pollina- 
tion is insured by the fact that the pollen is shed 
before the stigmas mature. 
SWAMP SAXIFRAGE. The Swamp Saxifrage 
differs strikingly from the Early Saxifrage in its 
choice of habitation, being found along the bor- 
ders of swamps and in other wet places and having 
rather long, narrow, obtusely pointed leaves from 
between which the flower stalk rises to a height 
of one or two feet and bears an abundance of 
small greenish flowers. This species is rather 
widely distributed, being found from Maine to 
Minnesota on the north and from Virginia to 
Missouri on the south. 
FOAM-FLOWER. An example of a peculiarly 
fitting name is found in Tiarella, the Foam-flower, 
which is also often called the False Mitrewort. 
To appreciate the former name you should see 
it growing in great masses in damp places in the 
