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of Professor Baroni, who described them as "H. fulva var. 

 maculata" (Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. II. 4: 306. 1897). Soon 

 thereafter plants of this clon were obtained by C. Sprenger in 

 Naples for distribution to the trade. The New York Botanical 

 Garden has been favored with living plants of this stock by Willy 

 Muller, nephew of C. Sprenger, who was associated with him 

 in nursery work and who still continues this business in Naples. 

 Plants have also been obtained from other nurserymen who have 

 offered the Daylily Maculata for sale. All these plants have 

 been identical in every particular. They are all self-fruitless and 

 they set no seed to pollination among themselves. They can be 

 propagated only by division and they very clearly belong to one 

 clon and for this reason the name Maculata may be used as a 

 clonal name instead of as the botanical designation for a natural 

 variety. 



In several respects the Daylily Maculata is a more attractive 

 garden plant than the Daylily Europa. Its flowers are larger, 

 the color-pattern is slightly more bold in its contrasts, and the 

 scapes are somewhat shorter, which brings the flowers slightly 

 nearer to the foliage. 



The Hemerocallis fulva clon Hupehensis 

 This clon was derived from a seedling plant grown by C. 

 Sprenger in Naples, Italy, from seed collected by Padre Cypriani 

 in Hupeh, China. The first published mention of the clon appears 

 to be in the Gardeners' Chronicle in 1906 (III. 40: 158), where 

 the flower is described as "reflexed, undulating, bright coppery 

 red, with yellow throat." 



The H. fulva clon Cypriani 

 This clon has the same source and history as clon Hupehensis. 

 Sprenger evidently selected for propagation two seedlings, grown 

 from the seed obtained from China, or it is possible that he only 

 obtained two seedlings from the seed that came to him from 

 China. This clon has flowers described by Muller (Gard. Chr. 

 III. 40: 159) as "coppery red with a golden centre and a well 

 marked golden line down the middle of the petals. The form is 

 gracefully reflexed." 



