Tellima
(an anagram of Mitella, under which this genus was formerly included). ORD. Saxifrageae. A genus embracing half-a-dozen species of hardy, erect, pilose or glandular, annual or perennial herbs, natives of North-west America. Flowers greenish or white, pedicellate, bracteolate, nodding; calyx tube ample, the limb five-toothed or five-cleft; petals five, rarely reddish, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, entire, trifid, or pinnatifid; stamens ten; racemes terminal, elongated, many-flowered. Leaves petiolate, roundish-cordate, lobed, toothed; stipules wanting, or adnate with the base of the petioles. T. grandiflora, the only species known to cultivation, is a handsome perennial. For culture, see Mitella.
T. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. greenish, about 1/2in. long and broad; petals laciniate-pinnatifid, sessile; raceme somewhat spicate. April. l. palmately-lobed, cut-toothed; cauline ones similar, two to four, alternate; petioles somewhat stipuliform at base. Stem stout, about 2ft. high. 1826. Plant hirsute. (B. R. 1178.)