284 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



Low, I to 2 feet high, with small flowers, in terminal and side 

 racemes, each flower composed of 2 petals, a 2-parted hairy calyx. 

 2 stamens, and a 2 -celled ovary. Fruit covered with bristly, 

 hooked hairs. In all our woods. 



18. False Mitrewort. Foam-flower 



Tiarella cordifblia (tiara, a turban, from shape of the pod). 

 —Family, Saxifrage. Color, white. Leaves, mostly from a root- 

 stock, heart-shaped, with well-defined lobes and teeth, softly 

 downy beneath. Time, April, May. 



Calyx, s-parted. Petals, 5, on claws, long, narrow. Stamens, 

 10, long, conspicuous, giving the raceme of flowers a feathery, 

 soft appearance. Styles, 2. 



The stem of the pretty false mitrewort is a rootstock, from 

 which the broad, open leaves and flower-stems, leafless, or some- 

 times with a leaf or two, grow a foot high or less. Range from 

 New England southward along the mountains, and as far west as 

 Minnesota. 



ig. Common Alum-root 



Heuchera Americana. — Family, Saxifrage. Colo/; green- 

 ish. Leaves, principally from a rootstock, roundish, crenately- 

 lobed and toothed. 7'ime, June. 



A tubular, 5-cleft, broad calyx. Petals, 5, small, only equal- 

 ling the calyx divisions. Stamens, 5. Styles, 2. Flowers, in- 

 significant, in narrow panicles. The hairy stem, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, is beset with small glands. 



Connecticut to North Carolina and westward. 



20. Stonecrop 



Sidum ternaium (from sedeo, to sit). — Family, Orpine. 

 Color, white. Leaves, thick, succulent, the lower in whorls 

 of three, wedge-shaped, broader at apex, the upper scattered, 

 oblong. Time, May, June. 



Sepals and nurrow petals, 4 or 5. Stamens, 8 or 10. Pistils 



