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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 91 The Day Lilly..bringeth foorth in the morning his bud, which at noone is full blowen or spred abrode, and the same day in the euening it is as rotten and stinking, as if it had been troden in a dunghill.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xxi. 108 The day Lillie Hemerocalles, hath leaves of a pale and wannish greene colour.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 148 The red Day Lilly hath diuers broad and long fresh greene leaues..; among which riseth vp a naked stalke three foot high, bearing at the toppe many flowers..flowring one after another, not hauing lightly aboue one flower blown open in a day, & that but for a day, not lasting longer, but closing at night, and not opening againe; whereupon it had his English name, The Lilly for a day.

1665 J. Rea Flora i. xiv. 94 There is another kind of Plant, called the Lilly Asphodill, whereof that Sedg, which beareth soon-fading dark yellowish Lilly-like flowers, commonly called the Day-Lilly, or the flower for a day, common in every Country-Garden, is a kind.

1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens i. 49 And thou whose Blossoms curl obliquely back, Rib'd on the Sides with a bright scarlet Streak, Shalt of Day-Lilly the fair Name receive, If one whole Summer's Day thy Beautys live.

1785 Ann. Agric. 3 163 Day-lily (hemerocalis [sic] flava) in flower in great abundance.

1824 T. Forster Perennial Cal. 268 The two Yellow Day Lilies Hemerocallis flava and H. graminea in full blow [on June 1].

1882 Garden 3 June 391/3 Bouquets are of yellow Day Lily.

1934 Amer. Home Mar. 232/2 The old-fashioned Tawny Daylily was one of those interesting plants that was reproduced entirely by vegetative means, a ‘clon’ to give its technical name.

1986 J. Cox Spirit of Gardening 141 Something kept drawing me back to the daylilies, though I knew they weren't the plant I sought.

2008 New Yorker 3 Mar. 30/3 John White is a serious gardener—a nurturer of daylilies and clematis, a planter of peel-bark birch trees.