HES 
cording to Diodorus, semi and win a were set: brothers, 
who pofle 
account he makes them the daughters 
Night, becaufe the: fun fets there. The Hefperides are 
reprefentedl by the ancients as having the keeping of oom 
ea apples on the other fide of the ocean. 
oets give them a*dragon to watch the garden where the 
Feuit rows ; this dragon they tell us Hercules flew, and 
ed off the apples. 
ny and Solinus will have the dragon to be no other 
than an arm of the fea, wherewith the 
ed, and which defended the entrance. ther 
It is fuggefted alfo, that “si the 
e to underftand the fhepherd that kept thofe 
fheep, a man aka rength and courage, who ufed to 
= to death fuch as attempted to force from him any of 
is flock. Others, with more _ probability, fay they. were 
oranges. 
Tk 6 Gardens of the Hesprrinzs, FHefperidium hortiy ot 
4orti Hefperidum, are placed by —_ authors at Larach, a 
city of Fez ; by others at Bernich, a city of Barca, which 
tallies better with the fable. 
Sufa, in Morocco, for the ifland w 
“fnad.: And laftly, Rudbecks places che Fortunate iflands, © 
and the gardens of the He {perides, in Sweden 
ifles of 
uncertain fituations ; they were = the iflands of Cape 
Verd, the Canaries, or the Azo: 
, HESPERIS, in Botany, is at ce or evening-flower, 
étion, 
Plin ufe it is moft in. and has a very 
patna fragrance in the evening. Linn. Gen. 40. Schreb. 
443. <rre 108. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 530. Mart, Mill. 
Dia. « v. 2. Sm. Fl. Brit. 711. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 398. 
Juff. ns Lamarck Did. v. 3. 320. Iiluftr. t. 564.—Clafs 
and order, Tetradynamia Siliquofa. N: at. Ord, Siiqofe Linn, 
— Juff, 
Ch. Cal. Poriauth of four teitets, whit are linear- 
lanceolate, ccaae longitudinally, incumbent at. the top, 
opening at rtom, deciduous 5 _the two oj 5 ee 
of them only half as long as the reft ; anthers 1 ja 
reflexed at she top; a ap aba ac dd 
he tho ee 
arden was encom-. 
eof, And 
~ late, finely a * 
Dibaeg — co province of ~ 
garden was — 
ides were iflands ok: the ocean of | 
and thorter, broader, | 
HES 
cloven, fituated internally, eet nb rege “2 at 
the bafe, meeting at the to op; withe d long, 
flatly compreffed, rag of two ee Bat ‘0 valve a 
long as = ache: 
ef: C 
fhall mention the princi cial 
H. triflis. beens ling Rothe, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. g29. 
1 Jac . Auttr. t. 102. Curt. Bot. Mag. 4 : wil 
y sermany wer, 
Root biennial. The /lem is about two feet hi 
ereCt, rough with long deflexed hairs. Leaves tag ak on 
fhort ftalks, ovate, flightly wait or toothed, efpe. 
roo their ribs; the upper part of the fem i is ieeiiled, 
begring numerous {preading cluiters of flowers, of that 
culiar dull ——. me, which feems exclufively appropriated 
to flowers that re fragrant i in an evening, and who vd fcent 
is beft Slee by its refemblance to the Ber; ‘amo’ 
dens 8 3 London. 
be feen in’Gerarde's 
of Cotar Sear pots of it in gi lsc 
H. laciniata. Willd. n. 2. Allion. Ped. n. 985. t. 82 
f. 1, of which we have a {pecimen from the author himfelf, 
appears to be but adlight variety of the laft, rage Se in sd 
ftronger teeth of its leaves, poflibly ‘hs may be the 
cojum melancholicum, figured in Ger. em. 463. 
H. mat 
927. (Viola matronalis flore — 
em. 462. ‘28 Stem fimple, upright. ‘Leaves ovebidnnaeel 
—Native of the continent o 
feet ch 
Scentlefs idee’ 's Violet. Lina, 8 Pi. yer, 
731. Jacq. Pein t. 47+ 
toot ? te. 
of # 
i 
a inodora. Sce 
Sm. Fl. Brit. 711. Engl. Bot. t. 
— Stem ereét. Leaves santo luctiohi, 
times flightly haltate at the bafe. ° 
found in Gloucetterfhire, and in the North of England» “ 
well as in Scotland. We received it from Switz 
on teat detesibed fo 
— ot Cok 297 a os Sins cut which we | 
fot know how to iting thle ty 
i is ‘the Linnzan Sain dp Gouan 
Hi: inodoray a very ditting ipeces with much {maller flowers, 
