Hemerocallis plicata. The H. plicata was first described by Stapf 

 (Bot. Mag. 148: pi. 8968. 1923) as different from H. nana chiefly 

 in having usually folded or plicate leaves and a more branched in- 

 florescence. An herbarium number (Mengtse, Henry 9497), a 

 sheet of which is now at The New York Botanical Garden, was 

 cited in the original description as belonging to this species. This 

 specimen shows a branched scape about 10 inches long bearing as 

 many as four flowers and extending above the foliage. Living 

 plants obtained in 1929 from Great Britain as Hemerocallis plicata 

 were evidently H . nana, for the scapes were shorter than the leaves 

 and only one- or two-flowered. Later, in 1933, plants of this spe- 

 cific name, also from stock in cultivation in Great Britain, had 

 slender scapes 16 inches long that extended well above the leaves 

 and bore as many as eight flowers in a much-branched inflorescence. 

 The flowers had a faint but distinct halo of fulvous color in the 

 face of both petals or sepals. The capsules produced were decid- 

 edly three-sided and tapered to an acute point. It is not clear what 

 the valid distinctions of this so-called species are. 



Hemerocallis Forrestii. This species was first described in 191 2 

 (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 298. 1912) from material 

 collected by Forrest in 1906 on the eastern flank of the Lichiang 

 Range in China. The first description stated that the plants grew 

 to a height of 18 inches and had flowers reddish-orange in color, 

 and that the species is to be regarded as related to the H. fulva. 

 There has, however, been no trace of fulvous coloring in the 

 flowers of plants received as II. Forrestii at The New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, a typical plant of which was illustrated in color in 

 Addisonia (15: pi. 381). As far as the writer can judge, this spe- 

 cies is more robust than the //. nana and the scapes are usually sev- 

 eral-flowered. 



The so-called II. fulva angustifolia. A daylily that was consid- 

 ered to be a dwarf variety or u. fulva was described by Baker in 

 1871 (Jour. Linn. Soc. n: 359). This plant was described as 

 having scapes scarcely a foot tall and leaves only 12 to 18 inches 

 long. The description was based on herbarium specimens collected 

 at Khasia, India, from Guriev near the the northwestern side of 

 the Caspian Sea, and from Karabagh in Caucasia. There is no 

 definite evidence that the color of the flowers was fulvous and it 

 seems very probable that these collections are of plants very closely 



