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De-V 1.5.2 ON Vali, 
1, Hairy Hefperis. 
Hefperis caule birfuto. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft, and are ob- 
long, broad, and of a dufky colour. 
The ftalks are round, not very firm, hairy, 
fometimes full of branches, at others quite fimple, 
and a foot and a half high. 
The leaves ftand alternately on thefe; and are 
large, oblong, and of a dufky green: they are 
broad at the bafe, and narrower all the way to 
the point, and fometimes a little waved at the 
edges : the lower ones have fhort foot{talks, the 
upper none. 
~The flowers ftand at the top in confiderable 
number; and they are large, but naturally of a 
dead colour: they vary in this, fometimes being 
fimply redifh, fometimes white, but oftener of a 
dufky hue, with purple veins. 
The feed-veffel is long, and often twifted: the 
feeds are large. 
It is a native of Hungary, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it He/peris montana pallida odo- 
ratiffima, Others, He/peris Panonica, and Hefpe- 
ris obfoleto flore. 
‘The flower has great fragrance in an evening, 
but none in the day ; whence the name. 
2. Small heart-leaved Hefperis. 
Hefperis humilia foliis cordatis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firit leaves rife in a thick tuft, without 
footftalks: they are fhort, broad, of a bluith 
green, fharply ferrated, and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalks rife feveral together in the centre 
of this taft, and are round, flender, of a pale 
green, and a little branched. 
They have feveral leaves on the lower part, 
but are naked thence to the top. 
Gian iit 
Nat eS 
F:O R Eel ‘GN! S (PeE'@) ESS} 
Thefe leaves are broad and fhort, and furround 
the ftalk by a wide bafe, fo that they have a 
heartlike appearance : they are of the fame bluith 
green, and are indented in the manner of others, 
The flowers ftand in a little tuft at the top of 
the ftalk ; and are large, and of a beautiful co- 
lour, a purplifh or bluifh, fometimes paler, and 
fometimes deeper. i 
The feed-vefiels are large, flender, and pointed, 
and the feeds are large. 
It is common on the fea-coafts of France. 
C. Bauhine calls it Leucoium maritimum latifo 
lium, and moft follow him ; but it is properly a 
hefperis, the pods having nothing of that fingu- 
larly divided top, that mark thofe of the others. 
Leucoium has been a name given much at rans 
dom by the old writers to plants of very diffe- 
rent genera. The proper characters were not fo 
eafily eftablifhed as to obviate this kind of con- 
fufion. 
3. Melancholy Hefperis. 
Hefperis filiquis articulatis, 
The root is long, divided, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are long, large, and of a dufky 
green colour :, they lie fpread upon the ground, 
and they have fhort footftalks, and are deeply and 
irregularly finuated at the edges. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and a foot 
and half high ; but at the top it ufually drops, 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it, and 
are oblong and broad at the .bafe: they are 
dented along the edges, and fharp at the point. 
The flowers are large, and of a deep purple; 
they ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and are fra. 
grant in an evening. 
The pods are waved, or as it were jointed; 
the feeds are large. 
At is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in June. 
C.Bauhine callsit He/peris peregrina filiquis arti- 
culatis. Others, Hefperis Syriaca. 
VII. 
ROC] Kipnap 
ERUCA 
HE flower is compofed of four fhort petals, with very {mall bates : 
little, narrow, coloured leaves, and falls with the flower : 
and crooked, and is divided into two cells by a membrane, 
valves of which the pod is formed. 
the cup is formed of four 
the pod is long, of a roundith fhape, 
which is fomewhat longer than the two 
Linnzus places this among the ¢etradynamia filiquo/a + G : ; : 
P Ss y) JSiliquofa; the threads ineach flower being fix, of which 
four are fomewhat longer than the other two, and the feed-veffel 
He joins this and the /i/ymbrium under one common charater, 
determinate name eruca or rocket, and callin 
others among the cabbages, braffice. 
This tends to create confufion; for both kinds have ver 
are fmall. Thefe genera approach very nearly to one anoth 
tals, thofe of eruca or rocket being fhort, and thofe of the Jb 
a regular pod. 
taking away the eftablithed and more 
g moft of thefe plants fpecies of water-cre/s : he places 
y numerous fpecies, and the diftinétions 
er; but they have a difference in the pe- 
ymbrium longer. 
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