IIEMEKOCALLIS C/ERULEA, 



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II E M EROCALLIS JAPONIC A 



Nat. Oih.,.ii.-III:MK»<)CAU,II>i;.K.— Linplet. 



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Tiiksk "beautiful Day-lilies" are both natives of JapjWj hut tlieir habits very 

 different Cterulca is perfectly hardy, but Japonic* seems to have difficulty in 

 accommodating its flowering season to our climate, and will not succeed well 

 without gome protection; its leaves are said to be «of a brighter green, and more 

 ovate-heart-shaped than those of Ca*ruleaf — (ho difference is very slight, and. in 

 colour at least, may probably arise from different situations or state of growth. 

 When Cterulca is in perfection in July or August, the fresh Hush of verdure* is 

 still in all its brightness-, the leaves afterwards become much darker. The growth 

 ol .la|x»niea is six weeks or two months later, and then (lie lints of autumn an* 

 mingling with the green in the older leaves; orange spots and streaks, and jkt- 

 forations. betray the ravages of the numerous insects which have sheltered their 

 larvae Imicnth rhc broad umbrageous foliage; whilst, not iinfrcnjuently. the cruel 

 frost not only tinges the leaves, hut with bis iron pincers, lays bold of the scape 

 containing its nest of llower-huds, each care fill I v folded in its own green hrnctc, 

 and gives a remorseless pinch, which effectually prevents further expansion, and 

 condemns ibein to linger out their existence as little buuclwlKiek hud*, instead of 

 becoming graceful milk-while flowers. 



The striking difference in the bmctcs, the shape of the raceme, and the length 

 of the pedicels, sufficiently distinguish the two plants, as well as their different 

 seasons of (lowering. Curtis mentions doubtfully u white variety of C&rulca. The 

 shade of blue varies considerably. Mr. Salisbury has called it a distinct genu*, 

 Sriussurca, but this name is given by De Gmdollc to a different tribe, and (iiiillemiu 

 remarks. (Dicttoiinaire Classupu?) we e«nuot well separate these " Ileautics of the 

 Day" (as liinnaMis so expressively terms them, Humkrocalus,) from the grand 

 group of Lilies. 



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