DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 237 
winter to throw up flower-stems, if the season is open and 
mild; cold does not seem to affect it. Propagated by di- , 
viding the roots in the spring. 
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HEMEROCALLIS.—Day Livy. 
{Name derived from Greek words, signifying beautiful and day.) 
It is an ornamental genus of hardy perennials of the 
easiest cultivation, and suitable for the borders. 
Hemerécallis flava,—Yellow Day Lily.—Has a brilliant 
yellow lily-shaped flower, in June, two feet high; leaves 
long, linear, keeled. 
H. falva.—Copper-colored Day Lily.—An old inbabi- 
tant of the flower-garden; in flower most of the season ;| 
four feet high; flower, yellowish copper-color; leaves like 
the last, but much larger. 
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HEPATICA.—Liver-wort. 
(Hepatica—from Greek words, signifying belonging to the liver, the three 
lobes of the leaves having been compared to the lobes of the liver.] 
Hepatica triloba.—This is a great favorite in the flow- 
er-border, on account of its abundant blossoms and great 
variety of colors and shades. It is a hardy perennial, 
with varieties of double-red, blue, and white. This 
charming early flower is found in its single state both red, 
blue, and white, in great abundance in old woods and 
copses, where it embellishes the ground with its clumps 
of numerous flowers. About the latter end of April and 
beginning of May they appear before the new leaves, 
which show themselves only when the flower is gone, but 
the old leaves remain through the winter. The leaves are 
divided into three lobes (triloba) of a brownish-green 
color, by which the plant may be known in the summer. 
