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Hesperis Tristis. Night-Smellino 

 Rocket. 



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Clafs and Order. 



TeTRADYNAMIA SlLIQUOSA. 



Generic Char after. 



Petala oblique flexa. Glandula intra ftamina breviora. Silt* 

 qua ftriQa. Stigma bafi bifurca apice connivente. Cat. claufus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



HESPERIS triftis ; caule hifpido ramofo patente. Sp. PL 

 927. Reich. 3. p. 269. JVilld. 3. 530. Jacq. 

 FL Auji. 2. p. 1. t. 102. Hort. Up/. 187. Jacq. 

 Find. 118. Crantz. Auft. p. 31. 



HESPERIS caule hifpido procumbente. Hort. Cliff. 335. 



HESPERIS montana pallida odoratiflima. Bauh. Pin. 202. 

 Morif. Hift. 2. 252. /. 3. /. 10. /. 3. Cluf. Pan, 

 333. montana et prima, Cluf. Hift. 



HESPERIS pannonica. Cam. Hort. t. 18. Park. Parad. 262. 



VIOLA matronalis flore obfoleto. Ger. emac. 462. f. 3. 



LEUCOIUM melancholicum. Hort. Eyft. Ger. emac. 463. 



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A hardy biennial plant of no jfhew, but worthy of cultiva- 

 tion for the fake of its agreeable fcent, which however it does 

 not give out in the day time. 



Miller fays, that the ladies in Germany have pots of it 

 placed in their apartments, from whence it obtained the ap- 

 pellation of Dame's Violet; but this name feems not to 

 have been exclusively applied to this fpecies, perhaps more 

 ufually to the Hesperis matronalis. 



Is propagated by feeds, of which it produces abundance in 

 very long ftraight pods flightly twitted. Thefe growing at 



right 



