ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS V15

ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS PLANTS Volume 15 1930 f YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN *0eN LlB«2 Y> April 24, 1930 plate 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 page Hemerocallis Forrestii Hemerocallis citrina Hemerocallis Hemerocallis Hemerocallis Hemerocallis fulva longituba fulva rosea clon I^uteola clon Gold Dust 11 Hemerocallis clon Mikado Hemerocallis clon Wau-Bun 13 15 Part August 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 1930 Deeringothamnus Rugelii Malvaviscus Drummondii Befaria racemosa Physalis Elliottii Consolea corallicola Swietenia Mahagoni Justicia Runyonii Citharexylum fruticosum October 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 18, Sabinea florida Corynella paucifolia Jacquemontia subsalina Proustia Krugiana Cestrum laurifolium Acnistus arborescens Anoda acerifolia Mentzelia aspera 25, 1930 March 505 Viola "Apricot" 506 Clintonia borealis 507 508 Erysimum 509 510 511 512 12, 1931 49 51 , 53 linif olium 55 Cheiranthus Allionii Pueraria Thunbergiana Poncirus trifoliata Pinguicula Jackii Gilia rubra 57 59 61 63 65 Index Taxonomic Index to Alphabetic Index to Volumes 11 Volumes 11 to 15 68 to 15 70 CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUMES Edward Johnston Alexander , John Hendley Barnhart Henry William Becker Kenneth Rowland Boynton Nathaniel Lord Britton Charles Arthur Hollick Marshall Avery Howe Albert Edgar Lownes Robert Tuttle Morris Ethel Anson (Steel) Peckham Francis Whittier Pennell Edward William Poole Joseph Nelson Rose Per Axel Rydberg John Kunkel Small Edmund Bronk Southwick Arlow Burdette Stout Robert Statham Williams Percy Wilson Gustave Ludwig Wittrock 11 TO 15 EMEROCALLIS FORRESTII HEMEROCALLIS FORRESTII Forrest's Daylily Native in Yunnan, China I^y Family Liljaceae Forrestii Diels, Notes Bot Gard Edinburgh 5: 208 The species Hemerocallis Forrestii is based on wild Family 1912 plants observed and collected by Forrest in Yunnan, China, where he found them growing on "dry cliffs and ledges of cliffs in side valleys on the eastern flank of the Ijchiang Range." Since then two other and somewhat similar species from the same general region have been named (H nana and H plicata) Evidently there is a group of dwarf or semi-dwarf types or species of Hemerocallis growing in the mountains of the Province of Yunnan Either living plants or seeds, or both, of H Forrestii were sent to England from which the species is being propagated and distributed for culture Living plants with this specific name have been obtained at The New York Botanical Garden from The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England, and from the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley, England Several of these plants have bloomed They all appear to be very uniform in char In the original notes by Forrest on the wild plants of this species, the color of the flowers is given as a deep reddish orange and in the first description published it was considered that the species is re- H.fulva There has, however, been no trace of the epidermal fulvous pigments characteristic of H fulva and H aurantiaca in any of the flowers thus far obtained from lated to the of Linnaeus plants of this species at The New York Botanical Garden The any of the fulvous davlilies now known The species appears to be dwarf or semi-dwarf in growth, but there is one reference (The Garden 84: 157 1921) which states that plants of H Forrestii grew vigorously until the stems reached a height of three and one half feet It is probable that there was an error in the identity of the plants obtained Plants of Forrest's Daylily have foliage about eighteen inches long and one half inch in width; the color is a medium green; the habit of growth is ascending recurving The scapes are slender, ascending but not stiffly erect, and in all plants thus far observed in bloom the scapes are shorter than the leaves The scapes are species seems to be very distinct from Addisonia sometimes unbranched, but are frequently branched, producing, according to descriptions published, as many as eight to ten flowers Possibly old well-established plants will be more robust The flowers are on short pedicels; they have a short perianth tube with scarcely any shoulder at the juncture with the perianth, and hence the perianth tapers into the tube The petals are narrow, not more than an inch in width, and the sepals are more narrow The flower color is a uniform cadmium yellow, gold-glistening over the inner Only two capsules surface, and with no trace of fulvous pigments have been seen on plants of this species by the writer and both were from cross-pollination The larger one is shown in figure of the accompanying plate It contained but seven seeds, so its shape may not represent adequately the capsules typical for the species A B Stout Explanation of Plate Fig 1.—Face view of fully opened flower Fig 2.— ADD1SON1A HEMEROCALLIS C1TR Addisonia CALLIS CITRINA Citron Daylily Native in Northern Shen-si, China Family LnjACEAE En