PLATE XXVIII. 



1. HEMEROCALLIS FULVA. 



TOWN LILY. 



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THIS genus contains plants of the herbaceous flowery perennial 

 kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Liliacea. 



The characters are: that there is no calyx: the corolla- is six- 

 parted, bell-funnel-form: tube short: border equal, spreading, more 

 reflex at top: the stamina have six. subulate filaments, the length of 

 the corolla, declining; upper ones shorter : anthers oblong, incum- 

 bent, rising: the pistillum is a roundish germ, furrowed, superior: 

 style filiform, the length and situation of the stamens: stigma ob- 

 tusely-three-cornered, rising : the pericarpium is an ovate-three- 

 lobed capsule, three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved: the seeds 

 very many, and roundish. 



The species are: l.H.Jtava, Yellow Day-Lily; 2.H.fulva, Cop- 

 per-coloured Day-Lily. 



The first has strong fibrous roots, to which hang knobs, or tubers, 

 like those of the Asphodel, from which come out leaves, two feet 

 long, with a rigid midrib, the two sides drawing inward, so as to 

 form a sort of gutter on the upper side: the flower-stalks rise two 

 feet and a half high, having two or three longitudinal furrows; these 

 are naked, and at the top divide into three or four short peduncles, 

 each sustaining one pretty large yellow flower shaped like a Lily, 

 having but one petal, with a short tube, spreading open at the brim, 

 where it is divided into six parts; these have an agreeable scent,, 

 from which some have given them the title of Yellow Tuberose. It 

 is a nativeof Siberia, &c. flowering in June. 



