O€tob. 
Pl. 59. 
Fig. I. 
purpureo albo &8 vario : 
purpurea : 
CompLizat Bony of GARDENING. 
ZEISS SSSI SESE SSSI SSIS ISS ERIGISE IGRI GIGI SIO TIO I TORI II IATA 
NUMBER LIX. 
For the End of OCTOBER. Ma 
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or the 
PreasureE GARDEN 
C’ TT “A YFi 7: 
Curious Plants and Flowers now in their Perfeétion. 
‘HE Garden doés not afford a fweeter 
Flower than this; though the whole 
Plant has much the Afpect of a pretty 
Weed. 
We diftinguith it by the Namie fingle, becaufe 
there is a double Species, though not known by 
the fame’Name: in that State the Plant is.called 
Rocket ; a very ill-chofen and improper Term. 
Rocket is the Name of another Plant once cul- 
though little known at prefent; and he would 
be ftrangely mifled, who from that Confufion 
of Names fhould fuppofe the double Rocket the 
Produce of that Plant. It is this Plant raifed 
to Doublenefs by Culture, and fhould be called 
double He/peris. 
In this fingle State the Plant has been de- 
{cribed by all the botanical Writers. They 
call it Hefperis vulgaris, and FHe/peris hortenfis, the 
common and the Garden Hefperis. Doponzus 
Viola matronalis ; and others thence, He/peris ma- 
tronalis. From his Name, Viola matronalis, came 
the old Englifh Term, Dames Violet, applyed to 
this Plant. J. Baunine calls it, He/peris flore 
purple, white, and ftri- 
ped flower’d He/peris ; and fome, Eruca alba & 
the white and purple Rocket. 
Linn&us retains the generical Name, He/- 
 peris, and adds as the Diftin@tion of this Species, 
Numb. LIX. 
Hes P Perit 6: 
Caule fimplicit erecio, Soliis0 wate lenceoletts, dentt- fe) ds, 
culatis, petalis mucrone emarginatis : Upright, fimple 
ftalk’d Hefperis, with oval-lanceolate Leaves, 
notched at the Edges; and with the Petals 
of the Flower nipped in. with a Point. This 
is along but a very expreflive Name ; and necef- 
fary on Account of the many other Species; : 
The Root is long, flender, and hung with — 
| many Fibres. | 
tivated in Kitchen Gardens, as a Sallad Herb, | 
The Stalk is round, upright, lightly hairy, 
of a pale green, and a Yard high. 
The Leaves are large and handfomeé: they — 
are oblong, of a Figure between thé oval and ~ 
the lanceolate, and of a frefh green, They ftand 
alternately on the Stalk, and are {harp pointed, 
and deeply notched at the Edges. 
The Flowers are numerous, and they ftand - 
every where about the Tops of the Stalks: and of 
thofe Branches which rife from the Bofoms of 
the upper Leaves. They are large but fimple 
in their Structure. Their Colour is naturally of 
a pale red, but they are fometimes of a deep crim- 
fori; fometimes white, and in other Plants not 
inelegantly fpotted. The Scent is in the higheft 
Degree fragrant, principally toward Evening, 
wheace the Greeks named the Plant 5 for Hef. 3 
peris has that Signification. 
Each Flower is: placed in a Cup formed of 
four little lanceolate Leaves, which converge 
8 P cowl! 
