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capsule. One of our delicate early flowers, growing in clefts of 

 rocks. Leaves, all at the root, round and broad at apex, narrowed 

 into a broad petiole, somewhat toothed. Scapes with a few leafy 

 bracts above. Early spring till June. 



Flowers cymosely clustered upon the ends of hairy scapes, 

 several from the same root, 6 or 8 inches high. As the stem 

 elongates, the flower-clusters hang more loosely. Mr. Gibson 

 says that he has seen this flower, which he calls the rock- 

 flower, blooming in March. (See illustration, p. 84.) 



False Miterwort. Foam Flower 



Tiaretta cordifblia. — (Tiara, a turban, from shape of pod.) Fam- 

 ily, Saxifrage. Calyx, 5-parted. Petals, 5, on claws, long, narrow. 

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

 feathery, soft appearance. Styles, 2 . Leaves, mostly from a root- 

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

 downy beneath. April and May. 



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

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

 sometimes 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. Hills and rocky woods, in rich soil. 



Miterwort. Bishop's Cap 



Mitella diphylla ("a cap," from the shape of the pod). — Fam- 

 ily, Saxifrage. Calyx, 5-cleft. Petals, 5, much cut into slender 

 divisions. Stamens, 10. Syles, a, short. Capsule, 2 -beaked. Flow- 

 ers, in slender, graceful racemes, 6 to 8 inches long, on rather low 

 and small, hairy stems. Leaves, of 2 kinds; those on the root- 

 stocks or runners, on slender petioles, heart-shaped, 3 to 5-lobed, 

 toothed; those on the flower-stem, a pair, opposite, sessile, with 

 stipules between. May. 



Rich, moist woods, from New England to North Carolina 

 and far westward. 



Grass of Parnassus 



Parnassia caroliniana. — Family, Saxifrage. Sepals, 5, some- 

 what united. Petals, 5, white, large, veined with green or yellow. 

 Five good stamens. At the base of each petal is a cluster of bodies 

 which will puzzle many students. They are sterile filaments of 

 defective stamens, 3 in each cluster. There are 4 stigmas, with- 

 out styles, over the 4-valved capsule. Leaves, 1 on the flower- 

 stem, near the base, clasping; others from the root, roundish, 



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