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age somewhat less coarse, and have taller scapes. The color of 

 the flowers is the same. The zone or eye spot is, however, less 

 developed in the smaller and inner accessory segments of the 

 double flowers than in their more primary segments and in the 

 petals of the single-flowered Daylily Europa. 



Of the origin of the double-flowered type there is no record. 

 It was in existence in Japan in 1712 and it is known to be now 

 rather widely distributed in Japan and probably also in China, 

 both in culture and as an apparent escape, evidently quite as the 

 Daylily Europa now exists in such old-settled areas as Long 

 Island about abandoned homesites, along roadsides, and wherever 

 the activities of man have given the plant a chance to spread 

 vegetatively. All the distribution of the double-flowered fulvous 

 daylilies in the Orient as well as in Europe and in America has 

 been by vegetative propagation. The very close relationship be- 

 tween the double-flowered types Kwanso and Flore-Pleno and the 

 single-flowered Daylily Europa is obvious. The double-flowered 

 type probably arose either directly from the Daylily Europa as a 

 bud-sport, or it may have been a seedling member of the same 

 race. Some evidence bearing on the origin of these rather anom- 

 alous types of fulvous daylilies will undoubtedly be obtained from 

 the character of the seedlings derived from using them in cross- 

 breeding. 



The double-flowered daylilies have not become popular garden 

 flowers. The color of the flowers is perhaps too dull. The flow- 

 ers also seem monstrous, coarse, and lacking in pleasing sym- 

 metry. As in the case of the double-flowered true lilies (Lilium 

 tigrinum flore-pleno, for example), they are not very attractive. 

 Besides, the flowers stand rather high above the leaves. Possibly 

 double-flowered daylilies may yet be developed with sprightly col- 

 ored and more symmetrical flowers, and with a more pleasing 

 habit of growth. 



3. Fulvous Daylilies with Variegated Foliage 

 Thunberg in his volume on Japanese plants (Flora Japonica, 

 page 142), published in 1784, makes mention of a white varie- 

 gated variety of what he called Hemerocallis fulva. He also 

 speaks of varieties with simple and with double flowers but does 

 not say which had the variegated foliage. A daylily with varie- 



