WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
GROUP VI 
Plants without leaves. 
Dodder. Love Vine (Ciiscuta Gronovii). Convolvulus 
family. July, August. 
A parasitic annual, growing over other plants; the stems are 
fragile, orange-colored. The flowers are small in dense clusters 
(cymes); corolla bell-shaped, its borders generally five-cleft; 
stamens five. 
Indian Pipe. Corpse Plant (Monotropa uniflora). Heath 
family. June to August. 
A waxy little plant bearing a pendulous flower with four, 
five, or six petals. The fruit is salmon-pink, and upright. 
Found in rich woods in early summer. Greek for one, and 
turn, perhaps from bend in stem. 
"Pmesaip (Monotropa Hypopitys). Heath family. June to 
October. 
This plant is similar to Indian Pipe, but the flowers are in 
racemes, white with reddish-yellow spots. 
GROUP VII 
Leaves from root only. Flowers with five regular petals. 
The white sepals of Goldthread, page 126, may easily be mistaken 
for petals; they vary in number from five to seven. 
Foam-flower. False Miterwort ( Tiarella cordifolia) . Saxi- 
frage family. April, May. 
A perennial herb of the woods, not over a foot high. The 
delicate flowers (one-fourth inch broad) are in long racemes. 
The leaves are somewhat heart-shaped. Seed-case thin, of two 
unequal parts. Latin noun refers to seed-case. 
