TE VL. 
HEMEROCALLIS CERULEA. 
a Blue Day. Lily. 
Crass VI~-ORDER I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | Six Chives. One Pointal. 
Gewnait CHARACTER. . 
EmPaLeMENT. None. 
Brossom, has fix fegments, of a funnel bell- 
fh 
— 
“ Catyx. Nullus. 
oe Corotta, fexpartita, infundibuli-campanulata. 
_ Sramrna. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Cuives. Six awl-fhaped threads, the length of 
corollz, declinata; fuperiora breviora. An- the bloffom, bent downwards; the- upper 
there oblongz, incumbentes, aflurgentes. ones the fhorteft. Tips oblong, fixed by their 
fides, and turned up at the ends. 
Pistittum. Germen fulcatum, fuperum. Stylus Pointat. Seed-bud furrowed, and above. 
filiformis, longitudine et fitu ftaminium. Shaft thread-thaped, of the Jength and po- 
Stigma obtufe-trigonum, affurgens. —— of the chives. Summit a three- 
a rnered, turned up at the poi e 
Pantcannion Capfula trigona, trilocularis, tri- ntie vEessEL. Capfule three-fided, pit cells, 
three valves, 
ne ‘ais: fubrotunda,  - Seeps many, nearly round. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
__ _Hemerocallis, foliis cordatis, petiolatis; corollis Day Lily, with leaves that are heart-fhaped, 
a oe is. ; | and have foot-ftalks; the bloffoms blue. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Chives, and Pointal, as — in the Bloffom. 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Sum 
3. -A sie of the fhape and fize en ripe. 
ie ———___. 
‘Tae variety of character exhibited in this new fpecies of Hemerocallis, fo different from its con- 
_ geners, in foliage, flower, and feed; would almoft induce us to think like Gertner, a generic divifion 
omegy if we were not withheld. , by that ftrong rule of Linnzus, (from which, it will be a leading 
feature of this work, not to fwerve) not toincreafe the number of genera, but where abfolutely 
_ neceflary. This {pecies, as well as a white variety, which has been figured by Kampfer; and con- 
tinued fince him -by Welldenow, in his new Species Plantarum, under its prefent denomination; is 
a native of China, and introduced to our gardens from thence by G. Hibbert, Efq. of Clapham, from — 
_ whofe moft extenfive and bea utiful colleétion this on was taken. It is as yet cultivated as a 
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