
158 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
been known to break asunder. In fact, to watch this little plant 
is a moral lesson in the achievements that can be brought about 
by quiet will power. 
FOAM FLOWER. FALSE MITRE-WORT. 
Ttarélla cordifolia. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE ‘ TIME OF BLOOM 
Saxifrage. White. Scentless. New England — April, May. 
southward and westward. 
Flowers: growing in a raceme on a high scape. Calyx: of four parted 
sepals. Corolla: of five clawed petals. Stamens: ten ; long, with orange-red 
anthers, /yst#/* one, with two styles. Leaves: from the base; cordate ; 
lobed ; very mottled. Scafe: about a foot high ; hairy. The plant is from a 
rootstock and is reproduced by runners that spread in summer. 
A little boy whose sister ran to him with her hands full of 
the delicate foam-flower that she had gathered in the woods, 
threw it down in disgust and said: “ Sister, it has forgotten its 
clothes.” He missed the leaves that he had been accustomed 
to seeing on flowers and was indignant at the long, naked 
stem. 
MITRE-WORT. BISHOP’S CAP. 
Mitélla diphylla. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Saxtfrage. White. Scentless. New England southward. May. 
The mitre-wort is very similar in effect to the foam-flower, 
although its beauty is of a much more fragile type. Its stems 
are low and hairy and it protects itself with a few stem 
leaves which are opposite and sessile, 
BUNCH-BERRY. DWARF CORNEL. (Plate LXXX.) 
Cornus Canadénsts. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Dogwood. White and green. - Scentless. New York westward. June. 
Flowers: very small, greenish and wrapped about by an involucre that ap- 
pears like four pointed sepals. Ca/yx: tiny; four-cleft. Corolla: of four 
spreading petals. Stamens: four. Pistil: one. Fruzt: a bunch of closely 
clustered, round, red berries. Leaves: ovate; pointed ; nerved; the upper 
ones whorled and apparently forming a resting place for the flowers. Stem: 
erect 3 bearing below a number of scale-like leaves. 
A proud little thing is the bunch-berry, and although it is 

