48 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



clear, yellow flowers at the summit; leaves long, narrow and 

 handsome. A beautiful species from Siberia and Japan. • 



H. fulva is the old garden day lily. It grows two feet 

 high, and has, during summer, clusters of large, sliowy, tawny 

 flowers. It thrives in any situation, and is found in nearly all 

 the older gardens. It is sometimes known as H. disticha, and 

 a double-flowered variety is catalogued as H. Kzvanso. There 

 is also a variety with variegated foliage. 



A species much like H. iiava is H. Middendorfii, but 

 grows taller and blooms later. It is a beautiful sort from 

 Siberia and Japan, and deserves popularity. 



H. aitrantiaca major, a new sort from Japan has splendid 

 orange-yellow flowers rivaling the Amaryllis in size and deli- 

 cate texture. The plant is more delicate than the others, and 

 does not always retain its place in the garden when placed 

 there. 



All these day lilies can be advantageously used in orna- 

 mental gardening. The variegated Fiinkias and Hemcrocallis 

 Dumortieri are good for edgings, and the taller kinds for the 

 back ground or for borders or groups. The flowers last but 

 a day, but new buds open in the morning, and thus the display 

 is prolonged. They are, of course not useful for cutting, ex- 

 cept for immediate effect. — Park's Floral Magazine. 



The Lignon Berry. — Regarding the identity of this 

 berry for which an inquiry was made in a recent number of 

 this magazine, Mr. O. M. Oleson, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, writes 

 that it is the fruit of an Old World heath, Vaccinimn Vitis 

 Idaea. It is sometimes called red whortleberry and cowberry, 

 and belongs to the same genus as our familiar blue-berries. 

 The plant 'is also reported in this country from the summits of 

 the white mountains, but the berries that come to our market 

 are grown in Europe. 



