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funnelfomi, tawny-orange, 4 to 5 inches long, opening for a day, its lobes 

 oblong, somewhat spreading, netted-veined, the three outer nearly flat 

 and more acute; the three inner ones undulate on their margins and blunt. 

 Stamens six, inserted at the top of the perianth tube, shorter than the 

 lobes of the perianth and declined. Fruit an oblong, thick-walled, three- 

 angled, wrinkled capsule. 



Native of Europe and Asia. Frequent in cultivation in this country 

 and commonly escaped to meadows, along streams and roadsides or 

 persistent in old yards and cemeteries. A flower of early introduction 

 into the eastern states where it has made itself quite at home as an 

 escape, and thrives and spreads with amazing rapidity under favorable 

 conditions. 



The Yellow Day Lily (Hemerocallis flava Linnaevis), with 

 yellow flowers, their lobes parallel- veined, is occasionally found near old 

 gardens and on roadsides, but not so frequently as the tawny-orange flowered 

 Day Lily. 



Red Lily; Wood Lily; Philadelphia Lily 

 LiliiDii pliiladclpliicini! Linnaeus 



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Stems I to 3 feet tall from a bulb about i inch in diameter and com- 

 posed of numerous narrow, jointed, fleshy scales. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends, or the lower leaves sometimes obtuse, in whorls of 

 three to eight on the stent, or a few of the upper leaves alternate, thin, with 

 finely roughened margins. Flowers one to five at summit of stem, erect, 

 3 to 4 inches high; perianth reddish orange, its six equal segments spatulate, 

 somewhat spreading, pointed or obtuse, one-half to i inch wide, gradually 

 narrowed below, spotted with purple toward the base; stamens six, about 

 as long as the club-shaped style. Capsule oblong-ovoid, i to 2 inches 

 long. 



In rather dry woods and thickets, more often in sandy regions than 

 elsewhere, j\Iaine and Ontario to North Carolina and West Virginia. 



