391 HEMCROCALLIS. 



1. F. IMI'ERF a'LIS. — Raceme comose, naked below; lenvrs entire. 

 Native of Persia. A fine showy flower of easy culture. Stem tlnck, striate, 

 3 feet high, the lower part invested with tiie long, narrow, entire leaves; the 

 upper part is naked, bearing at tlie top a raceme of several large, red or yellow, 

 nodding flowers, beneath a crown formed by the pairs of small, narrow leaves 

 at the base of each pedicel. May. Croicn Imperial. 



2. F. MALEA'GRIS. — Lc(/rcs alternate, linear, channeled ; sicm 1-flow- 

 ered. Native of Britain. Stem a foot high, with alternate, long, very narrow 

 leaves. Tlie flower, which is usually solitary, is large, nodding, and beautifully 

 checkered with purple and pale red or yellow. May. CliccUcred FrtliUurij. 



4. ERYTHRO'NIUM. 



I'etianth campanulite, s^'gnienls lecurved, (lir 3 itinerones 



(pelals) usually with a tubeicle altaclit'd to each side at base, 



and a groove; in the middle. 



Gr iav9Qoi, red ; in allusion to the color of the flower and leaves of some 

 species. Lvs. 2, subradical. Scape 1-flovvered. Fl. liliaceous. Caps, some- 

 what stiped ; seeds ovate. 



1. E. AmERICa'NUM. Smith. E. denscanis. J»fz. 

 Scapr. naked; leaves spotted, lanceolate and involute at the point; seifments 



oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, iimer ones bidentatc near the base ; fti/lr. clavate ; 

 sligiiia undivided. A beautiful little plant, among the earliest of our vernal 

 flowers, t'ound in rich, open grounds, or in thin woods. The bulb is deep in 

 the ground. Scape slender, 3 — 4 inches high. The 2 leaves are of equal 

 lencfth (5 inches), one of them nearly twice a- wide as the other, both clouded 

 with brown spots. Flower drooping, yellow, revolute in the sunshine. 

 May. Yelluw Erytkroniuvi. 



2. E. albi'dum. J\~utt. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate; segments of pcr/rnf^/i linear-lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse, inner ones without dentures at base, subunguiculate ; s igma 3-cleft, 

 lobes reflexed. About the size of the last, in wet meadows, near Albanj', 

 N. Y. Leaves without an acuminalion. tap(M-ing to the base, of equal length 

 includingthe petiole (4 — 5 inches), one of them twice as wide as the other. 

 Scape a little longer than the leaves, bearing a single, white, nodding flower. 

 Segments \\ inch long. Apiil. May. Wldtt Erijthroiiium. 



3. E. bractea'tum. Bw. 



Scape bracted ; leaves lanr-eolale, very unequal. An alpine species, found 

 in Vt. Boutt. A smaller plant, distinguishable by the inequality of the leaves, 

 one of which is 3 or 4 times as large as the other. Scape shorter than the 

 leaves with a narrow, lanceolate bract H inch kmg, a little below the flower. 

 Flower greenish yellow. Segments about ^ inch long, gibbous at base. 

 •Tune. Bracted Ertjlhronium. 



Tribe 2. HEMEROCALLIDEiE. 



Bulbous. Sepals and jielals united into a tube. Integuments of the seed soft 



and pale. 



r>. HEMEROCA'LLIS. 

 Perianth campaiuilate. with a cyiindi ic tube; stamens de- 

 clined ; stigma simple, villous, small. 



Gr. TifAiQci-j the day, and x.a.XXoi, beautiful ; flowers beautiful, but lasting 

 only a day. An ornamental genus of the easiest culture. 



