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tuft: they are long, narrow, of a pale greyifh 
green, and foft to the touch: they have no foot- 
ftalks: they are fharp-pointed; and they have 
each one or two indentings at the edge. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of this tuft, and | 
are round, weak, and divided into many branches : 
they are fix or eight inches high, and their co- 
lour is a pale green. ; 
The leaves ftand alternately, and refemble 
thofe from the root : they are long and narrow, 
and have ufually a fingle indenting. 
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The flowers ftand at the tops, and are fimatl, 
and of a pleafing colour, -a faint purple. 
The feed-veffels are long and knotty, er as it 
were jointed. 
The feeds are oval and very fmall}, 
It is a native of the Spanifh, fea-coaft, and 
flowers in April, 
C.Bauhine calls ic Leucoium maritimum minis 
mum. Tournefort Leucoiym yernum foliis eruce. 
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DAMES VIOLET, 
HES PERES, 
HE flower is formed of four petals regularly difpofed, and terminated by narrow bafes; 
the cup is compofed of four narrow-pointed leaves gaping below ; two of which are large at the 
bafe ; and it falls with the flower: the feed-veflel is long, flender, compreffed, ftriated, and often 
crooked, or twifted, and fingly pointed ; and the feeds are oval and compreffed. 
Linnzus places this among the ¢etradynamia filiquofa, the threads in the flower being fix, four 
of which are longer than the others; and the feed-veffel a long pod. : 
The Englith name of this genus being much difufed, it will be enough for the fludent to know 
there is-fuch a one, and more convenient to ufe the Latin, be/peris. : ; bai: 
DIVISIO NY, 
1. Wild Hefperis, 
Hefperis vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of many thick fibres. 
The firft leaves are very numerous, long, nar- 
row, and of a dufky green: they are fharp- 
pointed, fomewhat indented at the edges, and 
have fhort footflalks, 
The ftalk is fingle, upright, firm, and not at 
all branched, unlefs when luxuriant in the growth,‘ 
and then only toward the top. 
The leaves are large and oblong: they are of a 
deep dufky green, and are broadeft at the bafe, 
fharp-pointed, and dented at the edges: thofe to- 
ward the top of the plant have no footftalks ; and 
thofe on the lower part have fhort ones. 
The flowers are large and beautiful: they 
are of a purplifh colour, fometimes very faint, 
fometimes deeper, and fometimes altogether white. 
The feed-veffels are flender and flatted, and 
often twifted; and the feeds are oval and fmall. 
It is a native of our northern counties, Cum- 
berland and Weftmoreland ; and flowers in May, 
C. Bauhine calls it He/peris fylveftris inodora 
and moft defcribe it under the name of He/peris 
hortenfis: for there is no fpecifick difference in 
the two plants. In our gardens, by the affiftance 
of culture, the flowers become larger, ftriped, 
and doubled. Our gardeners, not very nice or 
careful about names, call it vocket ; and in thefe 
appearances the Striped rocket, and Double rocket, 
2. Jack by the hedge, 
Hefperis allium redolens. 
The root is long, whitith, irregularly con- 
torted, and divided into feveral parts. 
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The firft leaves are roundith, but indented for 
the ftalk, and flightly nicked: at the edges: they 
rife in a clufter, fix or eight together, and have 
long, flender foorftalks. : 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, of a yel- 
lowifh green, f{carce at all branched, and three 
feet hight. : 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and heart-fafhioned. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks, 
and are much lefs than thofe of the preceding, 
and of a lovely milk white. 
The feed-veffel is long and fender; and the 
feeds are brown, 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
May. i ; 
Ray calls it Hefperis allium redolens. Mott 
others, Ailiaria, from its flavour of garlick in 
the tafte, and lightly in the fmell, 
Linnzus feparates this from the e/peris kind, 
and makes it a fpecies of ery/imum, The diffe- 
rence is not very effential ; and, as the plant is 
known by this name, we have preferred keeping 
it in this place, : 
The garden hefperis, which does not differ from 
the ‘firft of thefe wild ones, otherwife than by 
culture, is highly celebrated in Germany -as 4 
wound herb. : 
The commen alliaria, \att defcribed, is eaten by © 
our country people with their bread and butter, 
and is very wholefome, 
Its juice, taken a fpoonful ata time, is excel- 
lent againft obftructions of the vifcera: it works 
by urine. In fome places it is a conftang ingres 
dient in clyfters, i 
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