HELLEBORUS 



HEMEROCALLIS 



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White-fid, varieties of H. orientalis. 



Var. olympicus, Lindl. Glabrous: fls. small, but 

 spreading, very numerous; sepals green on outer sur- 

 face, white within. Bithynia. B.R. 28:58. Hybrids 

 closely allied to this have been given the trade names: 

 Willy Schmidt and Prof. Dr. Schleicher. 



Var. guttatus, A. Braun. Glabrous, green st.: sepals 

 green outside, white within and elegantly spotted with 

 purple-crimson dots. Caucasus region. Two allied 

 hybrid forms are named: Commerz Benary and Albin 

 Otto. Gn. 16:60, f. 4. G.M. 54:73. 



Var. antiquorum, A. Braun. Glabrous, green mottled 

 st.: fls. as in var. olympicus, but more imbricated, 

 maintaining the bell-shaped form. B.R. 28:34 (as H. 

 orientalis, Lindl.). Gn. 16:60, f. 3. 



Green-fld. variety of H. orientalis. 

 Var. caucasicus, A. Braun. Lvs. very glossy; segms. 

 more oblong than in the type, often 3 or 4 in. broad: 

 sepals round, pale green, much imbricated. Caucasus 

 region. G.M. 51:873. Gn.W. 24:44. 



cc. With Ivs. on st. below infl. 



fcetidus, Linn. True st. 1 ft. high, marked with 

 If .-scars near the base: Ivs. coriaceous, with petioles 

 3-6 in. long: fl.-st. branched low down; sepals green or 

 bordered with bright purple, under 1 in. long, stamens 

 of same length. Fls. in late winter and early spring. 

 W. Eu. 



H. cdrsicus, Willd. (H. lividus, Auth.). Lvs. trifoliate, dirty 

 yellowish green in color; Ifts. broad-ovate, sharply toothed on 

 margins. Blooms March to April. Corsica, Sardinia. H. lividus, 

 Ait. Under cult, a robust plant with thick, fleshy sts. : radical Ivs. 



simple, cordate; cauline trifoliate: fls. 2% in. across, dull purple- 



fray, tinged with green, nodding, in panicles of 6-8. Balearic 

 K. C. DAVIS. 



HELONIAS (Greek, referring to swamp). Liliacese. 

 SWAMP-PINK. STUD-PINK. A hardy perennial bulbous 

 plant in wet places from northern New Jersey to North 

 Carolina and is sold by dealers in native plants for 

 bog-gardening. 



Rootstock stout and tuberous: scape hollow, bracted, 

 bearing at the top a short dense spike of rather showy 

 purple fls.: segms. 6, persistent; stamens 6: caps. 

 obovoid, 3-lobed, dehiscent above. One species. 



bullata, Linn. Lvs. several or numerous, thin, dark 

 green, clustered at the base of the scape, 6-15 in. long, 

 3^-2 in. wide, with fine parallel nerves: scape stout, 

 bracted below: in very early spring it bears a hollow 

 scape 1-2 ft. high, crowned by a raceme 1-3 in. long, 

 composed of perhaps 30 pink or purplish fls., each ^ in. 

 across, 6-lobed, and with 6 blue anthers. B.M. 747. 

 L.B.C. 10:961. B.B. 1:402. Helonias, which is per- 

 fectly hardy, is so easily prop, by division that it is 

 hardly worth while to grow from seed. Under cult., also, 

 it seems rarely to mature perfect seed. It multiplies 

 itself rapidly from offsets, a single plant often providing 

 a dozen others in a season. It is found growing in dense 

 shade and also in the full glare of the sun, always in 

 wet sphagnum bog in the latter case, while in the shade 

 it sometimes spreads to dry ground. Although one of 

 the showiest of all American bog-plants, it is compara- 

 tively little known here, though better in England. It 

 makes an elegant pot-plant. HARLAN P. KELSEY. 



WILHELM MILLER. 



HELONIOPSIS (Greek, like Helonias). Liliacese. 

 Herbaceous plants resembling the swamp-pink, Helon- 

 ias bullata, in the color of flowers, but the flowers are 

 larger and fewer, and the leaves numerous and tufted. 



Scapose plants, with fls. few in a raceme or sometimes 

 solitary: style a conspicuous feature, being long and red, 

 tipped with a purple undivided stigma, while in Helonias 

 the style is very short and 3-cut. Both genera are 

 separated from numerous allied genera by the septicidal 

 dehiscence of their caps. The fls. are bell-shaped, droop- 

 ing, deep pink, 6-lobed, with 6 red filaments and purple- 



blue stamens. The genus has about 4 species in Japan 

 and Formosa. 



japonica, Maxim. Rootstock short, stout, with long 

 root-fibers: Ivs. oblanceolate, persistent, green tinged 

 brown or purple: fls. pink or rose-colored, on rather long 

 pedicels, in few-fld. racemes: seeds small, very numer- 

 ous, with a conspicuous tail at each end. Japan. B. 

 M. 6986. It grows in the mountains of Japan at an 

 altitude of 2,000-7,000 ft., and is presumably hardy. 



breviscapa, Maxim. (H. grandiflora, Franch. & Sav.). 

 Rootstock praemorse, thick and short: radical Ivs. 

 spatulate, acuminate; scape-lvs. short: pedicels very 

 short; perianth blush- white, the segms. obovate; style 

 and stamens scarcely exserted: seeds appendaged. 

 Japan. G.C. III. 37:178. Gn. 68.52. Recom- 

 mended in England for early spring bloom and hardy; 

 requires a damp and shady position. Entire plant 6-8 

 in. high. 



H. umbellata, Baker, from Formosa, has oblanceolate mucronate 

 Ivs., st. 3-5 in. high, and 3-10 fls. in an umbel, the segms. obtuse 

 and scarcely 1 line wide. T TT R 



HELWINGIA (after G. A. Helwing, 1666-1748, a 

 German clergyman, who wrote on the botany of Prus- 

 sia). Aralidcese. A curious deciduous shrub, remark- 

 able for the reason that the small, inconspicuous 

 greenish flowers are borne in clusters on the midribs 

 of the leaves at about the center of their upper 

 surfaces. 



Flowers dioecious, short-pedicelled, with obsolete 

 calyx, 35 petals and stamens and 3-4-celled ovary: 

 fr. a berry-like, 3-4-seeded drupe. Two species in 

 Japan and Himalayas. Of not much decorative value 

 and therefore rarely cult., but interesting on account 

 of the unusual position of the fls.; hardy as far north as 

 Boston. It seems to grow in any soil that is somewhat 

 moist. Prop, by greenwood cuttings under glass. 



jap6nica, Dietr. (H. rusciflora, Willd.). Bushy 

 shrub, 3-5 ft. high: Ivs. petioled, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 

 acuminate, serrate, stipulate, 1^-3 in. long: fls. in 

 June, the staminate generally with 3, the pistillate with 

 4 petals. Japan. S.Z. 86. A.G. 13:8. 



A. PHELPS WYMAN. 



HELXINE (from the Greek to tear, because the 

 seeds catch on the clothes). Urticacex. A small creep- 

 ing herb with filamentous branches: Ivs. alternate, 

 small, entire, roundish: fls. monoecious, pistillate in the 

 axils of the lower Ivs., staminate in axils of upper. One 

 species, H. Soleirolii, Req., from Corsica and Sar- 

 dinia. Sts. slender, reddish: Ivs. bright green, cordate- 

 reniform: fls. inconspicuous. A good plant for the 

 alpine garden, to be grown in moderate shade. 



HEMEROCALLIS (Greek, beautiful^ for a day; 

 because the blossoms fail at night). Liliacese. YELLOW 

 DAY LILY. Popular yellow- and orange-flowered 

 stout-rooted glabrous perennials with abundant radical 

 foliage, prized for their hardiness and the showy bloom 

 in spring and summer. 



Erect with more or less branching scapes overtopping 

 the long keeled Ivs. which are both radical and 2-ranked 

 at the base of the scape: fls. lily-like, mostly horizon- 

 tal or oblique; tube short, inclosing the ovary; segms. 6, 

 much exceeding the tube, oblong or spatulate; stamens 

 6, inserted in the throat, declined, the filaments slender, 

 the style simple; ovary oblong, 3-celled, becoming a 

 loculicidally 3-valved caps.: seeds black, spherical. 

 Species about a half-dozen, Eu. to Japan. 



Hemerocallis includes the lemon lily (H. flava), one of 

 the hardiest and best of herbaceous perennials. All the 

 blue and white day lilies belong to the genus Hosta; 

 all the yellow and orange day lilies belong to Hemero- 

 callis. The yellow day lilies have narrow, grass-like 

 foliage, and their flowers have wider funnels; the blue 

 and white day lilies have very broad foliage, which is 

 not at all grass-like. The plants are all remarkably free 



