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Hemerocallis fulva. Tawny Day-Lily. 
Clafs and Order . 
Hexandria Monogynia. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla campanulata : tubo cylindrico. Stamina declinata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
HEMEROCALLIS fulva foliis lineari-fubulatis carinatis, CO' 
rollis fulvis. Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. p. 339. 
LILIUM rubrum afphodeli radice. Bauh. Pin. 80. 
The gold red Day-Laly. Park. Parad. p. 148. t. 149 5. 
According to Linnaeus, this fpecies is a native of China. 
It has long been inured to our climate, and few plants 
thrive better in any foil or lituation, but a moift foil fuits it 
bed; its leaves on their firft emerging from the ground, and 
for a confiderable time afterwards, are of the mod delicate 
green imaginable ; the appearance which the plant aflumes 
at this period of its growth is, indeed, fo pleafing, that it 
may be faid to conftitute one half of its beauty ; its blofloms 
which appear in July and Auguft, are twice the fize of thofe 
of the fiava , of a tawny orange colour, without glofs or 
fmell, the Petals waved on the edge, ,the flowers are rarely or 
never fucceeded by ripe Capfules as in the fiava, which is a 
circumftance that has been noticed by Parkinson ; when 
thefe feveral characters, in which the fulva differs fo eflentially 
from the fiava , are attentively confldered, we {hall wonder 
that Linn/eus could entertain an idea of their being varieties 
of each other. 
The Hemerocallis fulva , from its fize, and from the great 
multiplication of its roots, is belt adapted to large gardens 
and plantations. 
May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. 
