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■7: : HEMEROCALLIS disticha.
Fan-lihe Day-Lily.
Natural Order. HemerocallidEjE. Brovm prodr. 295.
H EM E R O C A L L IS . Perianthium campanulatum; tubo
cylindrico. Stamina 6, declinata. Stigma parvulum, simplex,
villosulum.
Herbse perennes ; rhizoma fihris fasciculatis carnosis crassis
nunc fusiformi-protuherantibus ; folia radicalia plura-numerosa
a piano obversa bifaria, ambientiave, lorato-attenuata, ab
inferius convoluto-equitantibus canaliculato-explicantia, nunc
petiolata lamina nervoso-costata ; caulis teres, bractea vel spatha
sterili nunc folio stipatus, simplex; racemospauci-multflorus,
corymbi-vel thyrsiformis, vel nunc spicatim effusus; pedicelli
ramiformes stricti, gracilisve jlexilis ; ñores majusculi, speciosi.
Plurimum L i lu , multum Agapanthi habet. Ker Botan.
magaz. 1433.
H. disticha, foliis linearibus carinatis distichis, perianthium
laciniis lanceolatis undulatis acutis patentibus reflexis ; tribns
interioribus latioribus, nervisque petalorum exterioribus
ramosus.
Hemerocallis disticha. Donn Cant. ed. 6. 93. Botan, magaz.
1433. Specie, enumer. Hort. sub. lond. p . 67.
Hemerocallis fulva. Thumb, ja p . 142. excl. syn. Linn.
Perennial, producing numerous suckers from the
base. Leaves distichous, or fan-like, linear, bluntly
keeled on the lower side, and deeply channelled on
the upper, elegantly striated, smooth and glossy; when
full grown, nearly a yard in length. Flower-stem
proceeding from the side of the shoot, much shorter
than the leaves, (in our specimen,) about 1 foot 9 inches
in height, forked at the point, slightly angular upwards,
a little twisted, and slightly covered with a whitish
powder, which comes off .as soon as touched; from
the stem is produced 3 bracte like leaves or sterile
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