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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 assumes at this period of its growth is, indeed, so
pleasing, that it may be said to constitute 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 circumstance 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.~
_Class 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._