How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Mitre-Wort. Bishop's Cap

Mitella diphylla. Saxifrage Family.

Stem.--Six to twelve inches high; hairy; bearing two opposite leaves. Leaves.--Heart-shaped; lobed and toothed; those of the stem opposite and nearly sessile. Flowers.--White; small; in a slender raceme. Calyx.--Short; five-cleft. Corolla.--Of five slender petals which are deeply incised. Stamens.--Ten; short. Pistil.--One, with two styles. The mitre-wort resembles the foam-flower in foliage, but bears its delicate, crystal-like flowers in a more slender raceme. It also is found in the rich woods, blossoming somewhat later.

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