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the kindness of Professor Y. Hoshino and Professor T. Susa of 

 the Hokkaido Imperial University. 



These plants are all very much alike in general habit of growth. 

 The leaves are light green, medium coarse, strongly distichous, 

 and ascending-curving. The scapes stand at a height of about 

 four feet. Compared with the Daylily Europa, they have foli- 

 age that is less robust and scapes that are somewhat shorter. 

 There is, however, the same feature of spreading rhizomes and 

 the capsules are of the same type. 



In respect to the precise character of the flowers there is much 

 variation among these plants. For the majority of them the 

 flowers have a long perianth-tube and the segments are long and 

 narrow (see Figure 7). All have some shade of red in the 

 coloring of the face of the flower and in most cases there is a 

 darker zone just outside of the throat of the flower. The plants 

 from Japan have the duller and more brownish shades ; some of 

 those from Kuling have bright shades of pink and red. The 

 flowers of one plant are coral-red in general color with an arching 

 zone of garnet-red in the midsection of each petal. 



Individual plants in any one of these groups from Japan, or 

 from Kuling, or from Purple Mountain in China may be selected 

 which agree closely with the H. disticha of Donn and of Sweet, 

 or with the H. longituba of Miquel. Others are almost identical 

 with the H. fulva clon Cypriani named by Sprenger. For a few 

 of the plants the shape of the flower (see Figure 6) is nearly 

 the same as that of the Daylily Europa (the H. fulva of Lin- 

 naeus), but no plant is a duplicate of the Daylily Europa or as 

 near to it as the H. fulva clon Maculata. 



The Fulvous Daylilies in the Literature of Oriental 



Plants 



Various botanical treatments by Japanese botanists and by 

 Europeans who have observed or collected plants in Japan and 

 China make mention of fulvous daylilies. For example, the 

 woodcuts published by Iinuma in 1874 (Somoku-Dzusetsu, 2nd 

 ed. vol. 6) illustrate two types later identified by Makino 

 (Somoku-Dzusetsu 3rd ed. 1910) as Hemerocallis fulva L. var. 

 Kwanso Regel and H. fulva L. var. longituba Maxim. In various 

 lists of species the names H. fulva and H. disticha are given and 



