P L A T E CXCIV.
H E M E R O C A L L I S A L B A.
White Day-Lily,
C L A S S VI. ORDER I.
I1EXANDRIA MO NOG YNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
C O R O L L A campanulata; tubo cylindrico. Sta- l| BLOSSOM bell-lhaped; tube cylindrical. Chives
miua declinata. declining.
¡1 See HEMEKOCALLIS C ^ R U L E A , PI. VI. Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Hemerocallis foliis cordatis, petiolatisj corolla !| Day-Lily with heart-ihaped leaves tliat have
alba, t u b o longillimo. foot-flalks; blollbm. white, tube very
long.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. T h e Chives and Pointal, as they are placed in the flower.
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.
3. A ripe Seed-veiled of its natural dze.
4. Tbe^Secd-veffel cut tranfverfely, to Chew t h e fituation and number of the cells and
5. A ripe Seed, natural fize.
T H E W h i t e Day-Lily Is from the fame country, and of the fame date in our gardens, as the Blue;
figured in the Fir ft Vol. PI. V I . and was introduced through the fame medium. It is herbaceous, and
generally flowers, if kept in t h e hot-houle, about Augufl; having that true and conflant character of
t h e genus, and from which it had its name, the producing hut one folilary. perfect flower, per diem,
till all the blolfoms on the lpikc are exhaufled; which, in this fpecies, are much more abundant than
in any of the others It is increafed by the root or feed.
T h i s plant, we prefume, is the fame as thole Ipecificd under the different titles of I.ilium Longiflornm,
and L. Japonicum, in Willdenow's new edition of the Species Plant.; the L. ctndidum, and
I.. Japonieum, of T h u n h c r g ' s J a p a n ; and the 1,. Longiflorurn of the Linn. Trauf. Vol. II. P. 3 . i 3.
T h e Hemcrocallis formerly figured by us, under the lpecific title of Ca?rulea, we take to be, the
Hemerocallis Japónica, and Liliti-.n Cordifolium of W i l l d e n o w ; the H. Cordata of 1 hunberg's Japan;
and the Hemerocallis Japónica, and Liliuni Cordifolium of the Linn. Tranf. Vol. I I . p. 332. Willdenow,
who had never leen even dried fpecimeus of the plants in quellion, has hence been led to place
tin- fame plant, under different genera; and to confider the Hemerocallis of the Botanifts Repofnory,
as only a variety of H. Japónica, but flill admitting it as an Hemerocallis. Mow, as wc have no
doubt, (_nor do we think any one can, that will take the trouble to examine the dilTeclions given with
each figure,) that if the one is an Hemerocallis, t h e o t h e r muft be admitted of t h e lame family; lb,
have we made no fcruple in rejecting the generic name of Lilium, for the prefent plant; although
wc would gladly have'adopted the fpceific one of Longiflora, had not that of Alba, already obtained
fo generally in our gardens; a rule, for our direction, paramount to all o t h e r s as t o fpceific de