LILIACE^— LILY FAMILY 



TAWNY DAY-LILY 



Hemerocdllis Jiilva 



HemerocalHs, Greek, from hemera, day, and kallos, 

 beauty — beautiful for a day. 



A tall, perennial, Lily-like plant appearing along the 

 roadside in beds and solid masses of sword-like leaves, 

 finally surmounted by clusters of uplooking, dull-orange 

 Lilies, borne on slender, leafless stems. An escape from 

 gardens. Native of Europe and Asia. June-August. 



Root. — Perennial, fleshy, fibrous. 



Leaves. — Basal, sword-like, linear, keeled, smooth; mar- 

 gin entire, apex acute; eighteen to twenty-four inches long. 



Flowers. — Perianth Lily-like, funnel-shaped, six-lobed; 

 lobes oblong or spatulate, acute at apex, much longer than 

 the cylindric tube, tawny orange; enduring for a day. 



Stamens. — Six, inserted at the summit of the perianth 

 tube; filaments long and slender, anthers linear-oblong. 



Pistil. — Ovary oblong, three-celled; style long and 

 slender, declined; stigma club-shaped. 



Fruit. — Capsule, three-celled, many-seeded. 

 Pollinated by bees and butterflies. Nectar-bearing. 



This plant is not misnamed; its flowers are beauti- 

 ful and live but for a day, yet as the succession is 

 continuous the flowering period is extended. The 

 plant appears by the roadsides in large beds of closely 

 growing sword-like leaves, yellow-green, conspicuous 



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