TIAREL'LA CORDIFO'LIA. 
HEART-LEAVED TIARELLA, 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. DIGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SAXIFRAGEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
9 inches 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
1 in 1731. 
No. 216. 
The word Tiarella is adopted from the Greek 
tiara, a diadem or crown ; not so much, perhaps, 
for its peculiar appropriateness to the present sub- 
ject, as for the close resemblance of its signification 
to the idea conveyed by the word Mitella, which is 
the name of another genus, whose flowers are very 
similar to those of Tiarella. 
The name Mitella, was first used by Tournefort, 
from the shape of its seed vessel, which parts at the 
top to admit the escape of the ripe seeds, and in this 
state assumes the shape of a little mitre, implied by 
the name; thus the names are made to resemble each 
other, as well as the flowers. Cordifolia, compounded 
from the Latin, to express the shape of the leaf. 
The Tiarella cordifolia produces a small cluster of 
extremely delicate flowers ; which are the more wel- 
come as they appear early in the season. 
It may be planted in the borders, or kept in a pot 
of light soil, in either of which situations it will suc- 
ceed ; but if in pots, it will be proper to give it pro- 
tection in severe weather, on account of the roots 
being then more exposed to cold than they are when 
growing in the open soil. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 72. 
