LILIACE^E LILY FAMILY 



Hemerocallis fidva, L. 



Tawny-orange Day Lily, 



Eve's Thread, 

 July-August Lemon-lily. 



Hemerocallis: from Greek meaning beauty for a day, in 



allusion to the fact that the flowers last but a day. 

 Fulva: Latin for tawny. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: gardens and roadsides and old 

 fields. 



THE PLANT: erect; two feet to five feet high; the flower 

 stem slightly flattened, hairless, bare of leaves. 



THE LEAVES: numerous; basal; light green, turning yellow 

 when old ; linear ; hairless ; tapering to an acute tip ; entire ; 

 channelled; parallel- veined. 



THE FLOWERS: eight to nine; large and showy, on short, 

 hairless stems; the tube is one inch or more long; the 

 flower divisions, usually six, three narrow and three wide 

 and blunt, with a veined texture; six showy stamens 

 placed on the throat. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule, three angled, with several black 

 seeds in each cell. 



The tawny Day Lily, with its large, one-tinted flowers, 

 rising on stout stems, from a tangled mass of yellow- 

 green, strap-like, ribbony leaves, is a familiar escape from 

 the gardens to the roadsides or sheltered fence-corners. 

 The flowers indeed last but a day, and at evening shrink 

 to a sticky tube, but the buds come out well in water on 

 successive days, and the flowers that thus open in the house 

 are none the less pretty, because paler and softer in tone. 



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