Perianth white, 8~io cm. long, tubular-trumpet-form; stamens adnate to the tube 

 for a considerable portion of their length. i. A^. plantaginea. 



Perianth colored, 3-6 cm. long, stamens free. 



Perianth funnel-form, the tube gradually passing into the limb, from white 

 flushed with lavender to pale lavender. 

 Flowering stem with leaves or with leaf-like bracts, these gradually 

 passing into the bracts of the inflorescence; leaf-blades green. 

 Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, usually equally narrowed 

 at both ends, the nerves on each side of the midrib 3-5; perianth 

 usually less than 5 cm. long. 2. N. japonica. 



Leaf-blades broadly ovate, the nerves on each side of the midrib 

 6-10; perianth usually 5 cm. long or more. 3. N. undulata. 



Flowering stem naked, or sometimes with a single bract at the middle; 

 leaf-blades glaucous. 

 Scape not or but little exceeding the leaves; petioles usually much 

 exceeding the blades. 4. N. Sieboldiana. 



Scape much exceeding the leaves; petioles usually not exceeding the 

 blades. 5. N. Forlunei. 



Perianth campanulate-funnel-form, the tube abruptly passing into the limb, 

 blue. 6. TV. coerulea. 



y I. Niobe plantaginea (Lam.). White Day-lily. Plantain Lily 



Hemerocallis plantaginea Lam. Niobe cordifolia Salisb. Funkia 



suhcordata Spreng. Funkia alba Sweet. Funkia grandiflora 



Sieb. & Zucc. 



A showy perennial, with large plantain-like leaves, and racemes 

 of white odorous flowers. Leaves numerous, pale green; blades 

 15-23 cm. long, 8-13 cm. wide, broadly ovate, cordate at the 

 base, acute at the apex, with 6-8 curved nerves on each side of 

 the midrib ; petiole usually exceeding the blade in length : scape 

 4-6 dm. tall, with i or 2 lanceolate bracts near the middle: 

 inflorescence racemose, 1—2 dm. long: flowers up to about 12, 

 each in the axil of an ovate bract 3-4 cm. long, on pedicels 

 1-2 cm. long: perianth about i dm. long, white, its lobes ovate 

 or lanceolate, 3-4 cm. long, but little spreading; stamens 

 shorter than the perianth: capsule about 2 cm. long. 



A native of Japan and China. Lamarck, who described this 

 plant under the name of Hemerocallis plantaginea in 1789, 

 thought that it had been growing for a few years in the garden of 

 the king, to which it had been sent by M. de Guines from China. 

 This is the first reference found to its cultivation outside of its 

 native country, so its introduction to gardens may be taken as 

 occurring somewhere near that date. It is known in Japan as 



