1. The Chives and Pointal, as they are placed in the flower.
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.
3. A ripe Seed-vessel of its natural size.
4. The Seed-vessel cut transversely, to shew the situation and number of the cells and valves.
5. A ripe Seed, natural size.
The White Day-Lily is from the same country, and of the same date in our gardens, as the Blue; figured in the First Vol. Pl. VI. and was introduced through the same medium. It is herbaceous, and generally flowers, if kept in the hot-house, about August; having that true and constant character of the genus, and from which it had its name, the producing but one solitary, perfect flower, per diem, till all the blossoms on the spike are exhausted; which, in this species, are much more abundant than in any of the others. It is increased by the root or seed.
This plant, we presume, is the same as those specified under the different titles of Lilium Longiflorum, and L. Japonicum, in Willdenow’s new edition of the Species Plant.; the L. candidum, and L. Japonicum, of Thunberg’s Japan; and the L. Longiflorum of the Linn. Trans. Vol. II. P. 333. The Hemerocallis formerly figured by us, under the specific title of Cærulea, we take to be, the Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of Willdenow; the H. Cordata of Thunberg’s Japan; and the Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of the Linn. Trans. Vol. II. p. 332. Willdenow, who had never seen even dried specimens of the plants in question, has hence been led to place the same plant, under different genera; and to consider the Hemerocallis of the Botanists Repository, as only a variety of H. Japonica, but still admitting it as an Hemerocallis. Now, as we have no doubt, (nor do we think any one can, that will take the trouble to examine the dissections given with each figure,) that if the one is an Hemerocallis, the other must be admitted of the same family; so, have we made no scruple in rejecting the generic name of Lilium, for the present plant; although we would gladly have adopted the specific one of Longiflora, had not that of Alba, already obtained so generally in our gardens; a rule, for our direction, paramount to all others as to specific denomination.[Pg 204]
