the periphery of the open flower. Several 
selections among seedlings of hybrid 
origin have this pattern. 
B. Two-toned patterns have, usually, 
a throat of one color outside of which 
both sepals and petals are quite alike. 
Distal; Fig. 4. For this the stronger or 
more noticeable pigment is at the outer 
portion of the flower, and often this is 
the red pigment which fails to appear 
elsewhere. 
Distal and radiate; Fig. 5. This pat- 
tern differs from that of Fig. 4 in that 
the color of the throat extends outward 
along the midrib of petals and sepals. 
Banded; Fig. 6. In the two-toned 
banded pattern there is a mid-zone in 
sepals and petals of more intense pigmen- 
tation, and usually this is a sap color, 
with the rest of the flower, both the 
throat and the outer part, of nearly the 
same coloring. 
Banded and radiate; Fig. 7. The pat- 
tern last noted becomes radiate when 
the color of the throat extends through 
the band in each of the sepals and petals. 
C. Three-toned patterns. 
Banded; Fig. 8. In the fulvous and 
red-colored daylilies there is frequently 
a throat of plastid pigment outside of 
which there is the sap pigment which has 
greater intensity in the mid-zone. 
Radiate; Fig. 9, Frequently in the 
two-toned and three-toned concentric pat- 
terns the throat color extends outward 
along the midrib. When this becomes 
rather conspicuous the pattern appears 
as shown in Fig, 9, 
D. Four-toned patterns have one more 
zone of distinctive tone than do three- 
toned patterns (Fig. 8). Usually the 
extreme throat is grecn, immediately out- 
side of which there is yellow or orange, 
then there is a mid-zone of dark red and 
a periphery of a lighter tone. The 
pattern may be Concentric, as here de- 
scribed, or it may also have a Radiate 
feature, when it will appear as in Fig. 10. 
III. Raprat Patterns. In these the 
sepals and petals are different in some 
noticeable feature of coloring, and this 
condition dominates. The stronger and 
more intense coloring is usually in the 
petals. Hence the pattern is bicolored. 
The principal variations in design accord- 
ing to the coloring of the petals are: 
Distal, Fig. 11; Banded, Figs. 13 and 14; 
and Radiate, Fig. 12. 
IV. CoMBINATION PATTERNS. The con- 
centric and the radiate distributions of 
color may both be present and conspicu- 
ous in flowers, examples of which are 
seen in Figs. 5, 7, 9, 10, and 15. 
Several unusual distributions of color have appeared which suggest that 
other somewhat distinctive patterns besides those here mentioned may 
appear in the horticultural daylilies of the future. Fig. 14 shows a scat- 
tered distribution in small spots of red pigment in the region of the 
mid-zone of the petals. The spots may be fewer and more widely dis- 
tributed than is shown in this figure. Numerous seedlings of certain 
progenies have this character ; and it is of interest to note that these plants 
are hybrids of parents which had no red coloration in the face of their 
flowers. If the spots of such a pattern should become much larger but 
still separated, a truly spotted pattern would result. 
In various seedlings the red pigment in the blades of petals is much 
broken into irregular areas to give a flecked pattern. In several of the 
seedlings already obtained there is a rather narrow but noticeable band or 
border of lighter color at the edge of the flowers. The Saturn Daylily 
has the marginal banded feature to some degree. In certain seedlings 
the darker coloring in the outer edge of the face of the flower tends to 
break into irregularities that suggest a picoté pattern. In other seedlings 
the red pigments are noticeably broken into streaks. As these and other 
new patterns develop they will no doubt be noted and described, especially 
when they occur in newly named horticultural clones. 
