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descriptions and comparisons of the cultivated and the wild types 

 are not made. 



Conclusion 



It is clear that the wild fulvous daylilies of the Orient which 

 are most closely related to the H enter ocallis fulva clon Europa 

 are a variable group of plants. There are wide variations in the 

 shape of the flowers and in the degree and the shade of the 

 fulvous or red colorings, even among plants of the same locality. 

 Such variations have given rise to the several names discussed in 

 this article. Judging from the living plants obtained from the 

 wild, it would seem that the type described as H. disticha by Donn 

 and by Sweet includes fully the H. longituba of Miquel and the 

 H. fulva longituba of Maximowicz. The plant H. fulva L. clon 

 Europa is rather closely approached in respect to the shape of 

 flower and general coloring by some of the wild plants but is not 

 duplicated. 



For the wild plants there are two extremes in the shape of the 

 flowers : the one with a short perianth-tube and usually broader 

 segments ; the other with a long tube and narrow segments. Pos- 

 sibly a more complete knowledge of the natural distribution of 

 these forms may reveal that there are really two distinct species 

 which are more or less intermingled and hybridized in certain 

 areas. At the present time it will, perhaps, be best to include 

 the variations here discussed, both of the wild and of the culti- 

 vated plants, in the one species H. fulva L., of which the clon 

 Europa is the historical type. If a botanical name is to be used 

 to designate the type with a long perianth-tube, the proper com- 

 bination is H. fulva var. longituba Maxim. With this treatment 

 the name H. disticha of Donn and of Sweet and the name H. 

 longituba of Miquel become synonyms. 



The individual seedlings that are brought from the wild and 

 propagated- asexually, as several have been, give rise to clons and 

 hence, in several cases at least, the scientific names applied to 

 such clons may now be used merely as horticultural names. 



While the exact counterpart of the H. fidva of Linnaeus (the 

 clon Europa) has not yet been discovered among the wild day- 

 lilies, plants very closely related to it have been found. Evidently 

 the original seedling which was propagated to give the Daylily 

 Europa was one of this group of fulvous daylilies. 



