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empalemcnt rifes the ftyle, which becomes a 
long, conical pod, divided into two cells by an 
intermediate partition, to which the imbricated 
valves adhere on both fides, and are furniihed 
with long cylindrical, or globular feeds. The 
fpecies are : 
I. Hefperis JylveJiris inodora^ R. 293, C. 202. 
Panonica inodor P. 628. Unfavoury Dam^s Vio- 
let. This plant rifes about a foot and a half high, 
and bears two forts of leaves : The lowermoft have 
finuated nerves, and, from a fmall narrow neck, 
immediately expand, and end in a point ; the upper 
adhere to the ftalk by their broad and felTile bottoms ; 
and both are dented, iiairy, whiter and fofter than our 
Common Dames Violet: The flowers are of a faded 
white, or purplifli colour : It has brawny long pods, 
and redifh feed : On the banks of the rivulets about 
Dak'head^ in Cumberland ; and Grafsmere^ in JVeJi- 
moreland, 
* 2. Hefperis Allium redolenSy R. 293. Alliariay 
G. 650, P. 112, C. 110. jack by the hedge. 
Sauce alone. It rifes a cubit and a half high : The 
leaves are roundifh ; the flowers white ; and the 
whole plant fmells like, Garlick. Hefperis differs 
frorn Leucojum in its cylindrical pods, and fwelling 
unbrimm’d feeds, which neftle in the furrows of the 
intermediate partition. 
The leaves are ufed, being hot, and of thin parts ; They 
provoke urine, and are good for the dropfy : The juice, mix’d 
with honey, helps old coughs. They reiiil: poifon, and pefti- 
lential diftempers ; outwardly they are ufed with good fuccefs in 
gangrenes. 
Brassica, Sea Cabbage. The flower confifts of 
four petals, expanded in the form of a crofs : 
Out of the empalement rifes the ffyle, which 
' turns to a long round taper’d pod, furniihed 
with roundifli feeds, and divided into two cells 
by an intermediate partition, to which the im- 
bricated 
