150 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GENUS VITZ—HESPERIS. TLinna. 
Sepals erect, the lateral ones gibbous at the base. Petals equal, 
entire, with long claws and spreading lamine. Filaments without 
wings or teeth. Pod linear-cylindrical, slightly compressed ; valves 
with a single nerve. Stigma sub-sessile, cleft into 2 oblong obtuse 
erect contiguous lobes. Seeds oblong, angular, often winged at_ 
the top. 
Erect biennial or perennial herbs, clothed with simple or forked 
hairs. Stem leaves ovate or oblong, entire, toothed or lyrate. 
Flowers rather large, variously coloured, disposed in short racemes, 
which afterwards become more lax. 
Hesperis, from éozepoc (hesperos), the evening, because the flowers of most of the 
species are sweet-scented in the evening. 
SPECIES lI—HESPERIS MATRONALIS. Lin. 
Pruate CIIL* 
H. matronalis and H. inodora, Zinn. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Zeer. 
Tab. LIX. Figs. 4377, 4378. 
H. inodora, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 731. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, dentate. Pedicels about as 
long as the calyx. Petals obovate. Pods spreading, cylindrical, 
beaded. 
In meadows, thickets, and roadsides, but only as a straggler 
from cultivation, and apparently not perfectly naturalized in any of 
its localities, which are rather numerous both in England and 
Scotland. 
[ England, Scotland, Ireland]. Perennial or Biennial. Summer. 
Rootstock somewhat woody, producing 1 or more stems, which 
are erect, from 18 inches to 3 feet high, and in large examples 
branched at the summit. Lower leaves obovate or oblanceolate, gra- 
dually attenuated into a short stalk ; upper leaves ovate-lanceolate 
or lanceolate, shortly stalked, and the uppermost ones quite sessile, 
the margins of all rather finely denticulate. Flowers about ® inch 
across, pale lilac or white, in a raceme 2 to 4 inches long, which, as 
usual, lengthens very much in fruit. Fruit pedicels 4 to # inch long, 
spreading. Pods nearly glabrous, 24 to 34 inches long, narrowly 
cylindrical, attenuated at both ends, remotely beaded. Plant dull 
* The Plate is E. B. 731, unaltered. 
