roA LE CxCTy. 
HEMERO CALLIS ALBA. 
White Day-Lily. 
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CLASS VE“ ORDER 1 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. aes 
Bossom bell-thaped; tube cylindrical. Chives 
eclining. 
See HEMEROCALLIS C#RULEA, Pl. VI. Vol. I. 
Coro.ta campanulata; tubo cylindrico. Sta- 
- mina declinata. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hemerocallis foliis cordatis, petiolatis; corolla 
aiba, tubo longiflimo, 
Day-Lily with heart-fhaped leaves that have 
foot-ftalks; bloffom white, tube very. 
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REFERENCE TO. THE PLATE. 
1. The Chives and Pointal, as they are placed in the flower. 
- The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 
3. A ripe Seed-veffel of its natural fize. 
4. The Seed-veffel cut tranfverfely, to thew the fituation and number of the cells and 
valves. 
5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. 
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Tue White Day-Lily is from the fame country, and of the fame date in our gardens, as the Blue; 
figured in the Firft Vol. Pl. VI. aud was introduced through the fame medium. It is herbaceous, and 
till all the bloffoms on the {pike are exhaufted; which, in this fpecies, are much more abundant than 
in any of the others. It is increafed by the root or feed. 
This plant, we prefume, is the fame as thofe fpecified under the different titles of Lilium Longi- 
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the fame plant, under different genera; and to confider the Hemerocallis of the Botanitts Repofitory, 
as’only a variety of H. Japonica, but ftill admitting it as an Hemerocallis. Now, as we have no 
we made no fcruple in rejecting the generic name of. Lilium, for‘ the prefent plant; although 
we would gladly have adopted the {pecific one of Longiflora, had not that of Alba, already obtained 
fo generally in our gardens; a rule, for our direétion, paramount to all others as to fpecific de- 
nomination, = 
