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the margins denticulate or repand. Flowers in elongated, loose, terminal 

 panicles, greenish. Each flower about one-eighth of an inch broad or 

 slightly broader; the obtuse calyx lobes reflected; petals five, lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx. 



Swamps, wet banks and wet woods, Maine to Ontario, Minnesota, 

 Virginia, Iowa and Missouri. Flowering in May and June. 



Foamflower; False Miterwort 

 Tiarella cordifolia Linnaeus 



Plate 88 



Flowering scapes 6 to 12 inches high, slender and pubescent, from 

 a rather stout, perennial root. Leaves all basal, long petioled, broadly 

 ovate or nearly orbicular, cordate at the base, three to seven-lobed. blunt 

 or pointed at the apex, 2 to 4 inches long, margins crenate or dentate, 

 pubescent above with scattered hairs, glabrate or downy along the veins 

 beneath. Flowers white, forming a terminal raceme, 1 to 4 inches long. 

 Each flower about one-fourth of an inch broad; petals five, oblong, entire 

 or slightly toothed, somewhat longer than the five white calyx lobes; stamens 

 ten, anthers reddish or yellowish. Fruit of two very unequal carpels, about 

 one-fourth of an inch long, reflexed on slender pedicels. 



In rich, moist woods, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, south 

 along the mountains to Georgia, and west to Indiana and Michigan. 

 Flowering from April to June. Also known as Coolwort. 



Alumroot 



Heuchera americana Linnaeus 



Plate 89 



Flowering stem rather stout, i§ to 3 feet high, leafless, glandular, 

 hirsute. Leaves basal, long petioled, 3 to 4 inches wide with seven to 

 nine rounded, crenate-dentate lobes; the older leaves glabrous or with 

 scattered hairs on the upper surfaces, new leaves usually somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Flowers greenish yellow, in elongated panicles; calyx tube broadly 



