THE CAPSULES, SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS 

 OF THE ORANGE DAY LILY 



A. B. Stout 

 Nezv York Botanical Garden 



FLOWERS OF ORANGE DAY LILY 



Figure 2 



All plants of the orange day lily (Hcmcrocallis fulva) are completely self-fruitless. 

 Day after day the plants bloom profusely. The flowers are perfect, with a pistil and a 

 set" of stamens present and fully developed in each flower. But they yield no capsules 

 and seed to careful self-pollination or to pollination from flower to flower among plants 01 

 the variety. The flowers merely wither to the very base and soon fall leaving conspicuous 

 spurs with scars as shown above. 



THE orange day lily (Hcmcro- 

 callis fulva) exhibits one of the 

 most obstinate cases of sterility 

 or un fruit fulness known among flow- 



ering plants. For many years this 

 plant has been grown widely as an or- 

 namental in both Europe and America 

 where in many localities it has escaped 



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