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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, incumbent, rising: the 

 pistilluru is a roundish germ, furrowed, superior: 

 style filiform, the length and situation of the 

 stamens: stigma obtusely-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: I. H.flava, Yellow Day- 

 Lily ; 2. H. fulva, Copper-coloured Day Lily. 



The first has strong fibrous roots, to which 

 hang knobs, or tubers, like those of the Aspho- 

 del, from which come out leaves, two feet long, 

 with a rigid midrib, the two sides drawing in- 

 ward, so as to form a sort of gutter on the up- 

 per 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 sustain- 

 ing 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 native of Siberia, &c. 

 flowering in June. 



There is a variety with smaller roots; theleaves 

 are not near so long, have not more than half the 

 breadth, andareofadark green colour: the flower- 

 stalk is a foot and half high, naked and compres- 

 sed, without furrows ; at the top are two or three 

 yellow flowers, which are nearer the bell-shape 

 than the others, and stand on shorter peduncles. 



The second species is a much larger plant than 

 the first, and the roots spread and increase much 

 more ; the roots have very strong fleshy fibres, 

 to which hang large oblong tubers : the leaves 

 are near three feet long, hollowed like those of 

 the former, turning back toward the top : the 

 fl >wer-stalks are as thick as a man's finger, and 

 rise near four feet high ; they are naked, with- 

 out joints, and branching at the top, where are 

 several large copper-coloured flowers, shaped 

 like those of the Red Lily, and as large. These 

 flowers never continue longer than one day, but 

 there is a succession of flowers on the same 

 plants for a fortnight or three weeks. It flowers 

 in July and August. 



Culture. — These plants are easily increased by 

 planting the ofF-seta taken from the roots in au- 

 tumn in any situation, as they are extremely 

 hardy. They afterwards require no other culture, 

 but to keep them clean from weeds, and to allow 

 them room, that their roots may spread. 



The first sort may also be increased by seeds, 

 which should be sown in autumn. The plants 



come up in the following spring, and these will 

 flower in two years. * 



A moist soil and shady situation are the best 

 suited to their growth ; their size, and the great 

 increase of their roots, especially in the second 

 sort, render them most proper for large gardens 

 and plantations, where they produce much va- 

 riety and effect. 



HEPATICA. See Anemone. 



HERB, such a plant as rises with leaves and 

 stalks annually from the root, the stalks not be- 

 coming woody or durable. 



Many of the kitchen-garden esculents, and a 

 great variety of ornamental or flowery plants, 

 are of this kind. See Hekbaceous Plants. 



Many under-shrubby esculent and other plants 

 are also sometimes considered as Herbs ; such as 

 sage, thyme, rue, hyssop, winter-savory, laven- 

 der, &c. : but these having ligneous, durable 

 stalks and branches, more properly belong to 

 the shrubby tribe. 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS, such as have the 

 properties of herbs. 



All such as produce leaves and stalks annually 

 from the root, and whose stalks or stems remain 

 green and succulent, or soft, and do not become 

 woody, or durable, but die down to the root 

 every year, soon after they have produced flowers, 

 &c. are properly of this sort, and of which there 

 are annuals, biennials, and perennials. 



They are thus very distinguishable from the 

 woody kinds, such as trees, shrubs, and under- 

 shrubs, whose stems and branches are woody or 

 ligneous, and durable. 



Of this class are most of the esculents of the 

 kitchen-garden, except those of the under-shrub- 

 by kinds, such as sage, thyme, hyssop, &c. vast 

 numbers of the flowery .kinds for the pleasure- 

 garden, almost all the annuals and biennials; as 

 also all the perennials, both the fibrous, bulbous, 

 and tuberous-rooted kinds, whose stalks decay 

 annually. 



HERMANNIA, a genus containing plants 

 of the shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monadel' 

 phia Pentandria, and ranks in the natural order 

 of Columniferce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, five-cleft, roundish, infla- 

 ted : the little clefts bent in, permanent : the 

 corolla pentapetalous, spiral against the sun: 

 claws the length of the calyx, with a little mem- 

 brane on each side converging into a cowled nec- 

 tarcous tube : border spreading, broadish, blunt: 

 the stamina have five filaments, broadish, very 

 slightly coalescing at bottom into one body : an- 

 thers upright, acuminate, converging : the pis- 

 tillurn is a roundish germ, five-sided, five corner- 

 ed : styles five, filiform, approximating, subulate, 

 longer than the stamens : stigma simple : the 



