PLATE CXCIV. 



HEMEROCALLTS ALBA. 



White Day-Lily. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla campanulata; tubo cylindrico. Sta- 

 mina declinala. 



Blossom bell-fliaped; tube cylindrical. Chives 

 declining. 

 See He.merocallis c^erulea, PI. VI. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hemcrocallis foliis cordntis, petiolatisj corolla 

 .Tlba, tubo longillinio. 



Day-Lily with heart-itaped leaves that have 

 foot-ftalks ; bloll'oni white, tube very 

 long. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



The Chives and Pointal, as they are placed in the flower. 



The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 



A ripe Seed-vellel of its natural fize. 



The Seed-vertel cut tranfverfely, to Ihew the lituation and number of the cells and 



valves. 

 A ripe Seed, natural fize. 



The White Day-Lily is from the fame country, and of the fame date in our gardens, as the Blue; 

 figured in the Firll Vol. PI. VL and was introduced through the fame medium. It is herbaceous, and 

 generally flowers, if kept in the hot-houle, about Augufi; having that true and conllant chara6ter of 

 the genus, and from which it had its name, the producing but one lolitary, perfect flower, per diem, 

 till all the bloflbms on the fpike are exhaufied; which, in this ipecies, are much more abundant than 

 in any of the others It is increal'ed by the rout or feed. 



This plant, we prelume, is the lame as thofe fpecified under the different titles of Lilium Longi- 

 florum, and L. Japonicum, in Willdenow's new edition of the Species Plant,; the L. c.uididum, and 

 L. Japonicum, of Thunberg's Japan; and the L. Longifloruia of the Linn. Tranf. Vol. II. P. 3i3. 

 The Hemerocallis f(,rmerly figured by us, under die fpeciiic title of Cserulea, we take to be, the 

 Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of Willdenow; the H. Cordata of Ihunberg's Japan; 

 and the Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of the Linn. Tranl". Vol. II. p. 332. Willde- 

 now, who had never teen even dried I'pecimens of the plants in quetlion, has hence been led to place 

 the fame plant, under ditferent genera; and to confider the Hemerocallis of the Botanilis Repolilory, 

 as only a variety of H. Japonica, but liill admitting it as an Hemerocallis. Now, as we have no 

 doubt, (nor do we think any one can, that will take the trouble to examine the dilTections given witli 

 each figure,) that if the one is an Hemerocallis, the other muft be admitted of the lame family; lb, 

 have we made no fcruple in rejefting the generic name of Lilium, for the prefent plant; although 

 we would gladly have adopted the fpecific one of Longiflora, had not that of Alba, already obtained 

 fo generally in our gardens; a rule, for our direftion, paramount to all others as to fpecific de- 

 nomination. 



