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colouring of the flowers. Superficially the clon here de- 

 scribed as H. aurantiaca could be viewed as somewhat like 

 H. Dumortierii. 



The clon of H. aurantiaca assembled by the writer is 

 self-incompatible. Pollinations between the plants of this 

 type obtained from many sources have given no seeds, 

 which is the behaviour expected for plants of a clon derived 

 from a self-incompatible plant. It may be noted that Baker 

 did not describe capsules. The clon sets seeds readily to 

 various cross-pollinations, and hybrids of such parentage are 

 in the trade as horticultural varieties. The writer has grown 

 many hybrids with H. aurantiaca as one parent and in some 

 cases the second and third generations of the progeny have 

 been grown. The evergreen habit of growth, the somewhat 

 narrow and elongated petals, the flower shape and the 

 fulvous colouring characteristic of the H. aurantiaca re- 

 appear in certain of the offspring, some of which are very 

 similar to this parent. Some of the clons now being dis- 

 tributed as H. aurantiaca are no doubt hybrids between the 

 type clon and other Day Lilies. 



The H. aurantiaca major described by Baker in 1895 

 (Gard. Chron. vol. 78, p. 62) is very similar to H. aurantiaca 

 in habits of growth and in season of flowering, but the 

 flowers are much larger, more full, more widely spreading 

 (see Fig. lxvii), and uniformly pale orange without any 

 fulvous colouring. At New York and northward this Day 

 Lily suffers from winter injury and does not thrive and 

 bloom freely. The writer has never observed it in garden 

 culture in the United States. It is recorded (The Garden, 

 vol. 48, p. 400, 1895) that this plant appeared in cultivation 

 in Japan and was probably a chance seedling of accidental 

 hybridization. Various plants obtained from different 

 sources in Europe and from cultivated stock in Japan are 

 identical, and appear to belong to one clon, and some 

 of those from Japan were obtained under the name 

 "Hemerocallis aurea\ But certain clons distributed under 



