Volume Ii Part 9 (2/2)
~Hexandria Monogynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Corolla_ campanulata: tubo cylindrico. _Stamina_ declinata.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
HEMEROCALLIS _fulva_ foliis lineari-subulatis carinatis, corollis fulvis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 339._
LILIUM rubrum asphodeli radice. _Bauh. Pin. 80._
The gold red Day-Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 148. t. 149. f. 5._
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According to LINNaeUS, this species is a native of China.
It has long been inured to our climate, and few plants thrive better in any soil or situation, but a moist soil suits it best; its leaves on their first emerging from the ground, and for a considerable time afterwards, are of the most delicate green imaginable; the appearance which the plant a.s.sumes at this period of its growth is, indeed, so pleasing, that it may be said to const.i.tute one half of its beauty; its blossoms which appear in July and August, are twice the size of those of the _flava_, of a tawny orange colour, without gloss or smell, the Petals waved on the edge, the flowers are rarely or never succeeded by ripe Capsules as in the _flava_, which is a circ.u.mstance that has been noticed by PARKINSON; when these several characters, in which the _fulva_ differs so essentially from the _flava_, are attentively considered, we shall wonder that LINNaeUS could entertain an idea of their being varieties of each other.
The _Hemerocallis fulva_, from its size, and from the great multiplication of its roots, is best adapted to large gardens and plantations.
May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn.
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~Clematis integrifolia. Entire-Leaved Clematis, or Virgins-Bower.~
_Cla.s.s and Order._
~Polyandria Polygynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Cal._ 0. _Petala_ 4. rarius 5.--vel 6. _Sem._ caudata.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
CLEMATIS _integrifolia_ foliis simplicibus ovato-lanceolatis, floribus cernuis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 512._
CLEMAt.i.tIS coerulea erecta. _Bauh. Pin. 300._
CLEMATIS coerulea Pannonica. The Hungarian Climer. _Park. Parad. p. 393._
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