Plate 13. 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED DISTICHOUS DAY-LILY. 
Hemerocallis disticha , var. Jlore-pleno. 
This very fine herbaceous plant was exhibited in May of the 
present year, before the Floral Committee of the Horticultural 
Society of London, by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Royal 
Exotic Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea, and received a first-class 
certificate as a novelty of a highly meritorious character. It 
certainly is a very handsome plant, being of fine habit, and pro¬ 
ducing large and attractively coloured flowers. They have in¬ 
deed the defect common to the family of Day-Lilies, namely, 
that of being individually but of short duration, but this is 
compensated for in some measure, by the succession which is 
produced during the blooming period. 
The plant itself, which is of a strictly herbaceous perennial 
character, is of vigorous habit, producing a tuft of spreading or 
arching leaves, above which the flowers are elevated on a 
branching stem or scape. The leaves are distichous or two- 
ranked,—that is, ranged in two opposite series,—which is one of 
the peculiar features of this species ; they are broadish-linear, 
somewhat channelled, narrowing to an acute point, and have, 
in fact, a broad grassy character. The flower-stem rises two 
feet or more in height, forking in the upper part, the branches 
producing several flowers in succession, one above the other at 
short intervals, each being placed in the axil of a small lance¬ 
shaped leafy bract. The flowers are large, measuring nearly or 
quite five inches across; and, unlike those of the parent species, 
which are single dividing into six lobes, they consist, as it were, 
'Plate 18. —Hemerocallis disticha, var. eloee-plexo : habit and foliage 
as in the species ; perianth about quadrupled, forming a large spreading rosette 
of recurved segments. 
