PLATE CCXLIV. 



HEMEROCALLIS GRAMINEA. 



Grafs-leaved Day-Lily. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla campanulata; tubo cylindrico. 

 Stamina declinata. 



Blossom bell-fliapedj tube cylindrical. 

 Chives declining. 

 See Hemerocallis cjerulea, PI. VI. Vol. 1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hemerocallis foliis linearibus, carinatis, grami- 

 neis; petalis trlbus interioribus raajoribns 

 undulatisj esterioribus miuoribus, extus 

 bruneis. 



Hemerocallis with linear leaves, keeled and 

 gralTy; the three inner petals larger, 

 waved, the outer Imaller, brown on the 

 outlide. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



J - An outer leaf of the Bloffom, lliewn from the outfide. 



2. The Chives and Pointal. 



3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, cleared of the chives. 



We have little doubt but that this is the fpecies of Day-Lily known to botanifts, fince the days of 

 Parkinfon and Gerarde, under the charafter of a I'mall leaved variety of the Yellow Day-Lily, although 

 it has been many years loft to the countr}'. It is one amongft the many plants introduced by the late 

 Dr. Sibthorpe, to the Oxford botanic garden. As a native of the northern parts of Europe, it is as hardy 

 as either theH. flava or H. fulva, to both which fpecies it bears ftrong affinity; although, we conceive, 

 fufficiently diftinft from either, to conititule a fpecies; which however we fhould not have done, but 

 that the plant is now known in our gardens, under our fpecihc tide. The flowers of this plant laft, in 

 «reneral, two or three days before they decay, are verj- fweet fcented, and as large as thofe of the H. fulva. 

 It is inereafed as eafily as any of the genus, by parting the roots, and thrives in almoft any foil. 



