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Figure 7. A wild plant from China, showing the long perianth-tube, 

 and narrow segments. In comparison with the flower shown in Figure f> 

 there is less of an eye-zone and the colors are paler and more fulvous. 

 This is the type of flower described as //. disticha by Donn and by Sweet, 

 as H. longituba by Miquel, and as H. fulva longituba by Maximowicz. 

 Figures 5, 6, and 7 show well, except for portraying the shades of color,, 

 the variations in the flowers of plants that are at present included in the 

 species //. fulva. 



in a few cases both names are included in one list. In most 

 cases, however, all the single-flowered types of the fulvous day- 

 lilies other than the //. aurantiaca, which will be discussed in a 

 later article, are included in the name Hemerocallis fulva, but by 

 some writers they are all called H. disticha and in a few instances 

 the names listed are H. fulva and //. fulva var. longituba. 



In none of these descriptions and lists is there a critical discus- 

 sion of the types and variations that were observed, and adequate 



