. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 29. HESPERIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 663. 1753. Erect perennial or biennial herbs, pubescent with forked hairs, with simple leaves and large racemose purple or white flowers. Stigma wdth 2 erect lobes. Siliques elongated, nearly cylindric, the valves keeled, dehiscent, l-rierved. Seeds in I row in each cell, globose, wing- less; cotyledons incumbent. [Name from Hesperus, e
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 29. HESPERIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 663. 1753. Erect perennial or biennial herbs, pubescent with forked hairs, with simple leaves and large racemose purple or white flowers. Stigma wdth 2 erect lobes. Siliques elongated, nearly cylindric, the valves keeled, dehiscent, l-rierved. Seeds in I row in each cell, globose, wing- less; cotyledons incumbent. [Name from Hesperus, evening, when the flowers are most fragrant.] About 25 species, natives of Europe and Asia. Type species : Hesperis malronalis L. I. Hesperis matronalis L. Dame's Rocket or Dame's Violet. Fig. 2062. Hesperis malronalis L. Sp. PI. 663. 1753. Erect, simple or sparingly branched above, 2°-3° high. Lower leaves 3-8' long, tapering into a petiole, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, dentate with minute teeth, pubescent on both sides; upper leaves similar but smaller, sessile or short-petioled ; flowers 8"-l2" broad, pink, purple or white, fra- grant ; blade of the petals widely spreading, about as long as the claw; pods 2-4' long, spreading or ascending, contracted between the seeds when ripe. In fields and along roadsides, escaped from gar- dens, Nova Scotia to Ontario,_ Pennsylvania and Iowa. Native of Europe and Asia. May-.^ug. Old English names are Queen's- or Dame's-gilliflower; night-scented, rogue's- or winter-gilliflower. Dam- ask-violet. Sweet-rocket. Summer-lilac. 30. ARABIDOPSIS (DC.) Schur. Enum. PI. Trans. 55. 1866. [PlLOSELLA (Thai) Kostel. Enum. Hort. Prag. 104. Hyponym. 1844.] [Stenophracma Celak. Flora 55: 438. 1872.] Annual or perennial herbs with the aspect of some species of Arabis, pubescent with forked hairs, w^ith branched slender erect stems, entire or toothed leaves and small white or pink flowers in terminal racemes. Style very short; stigma 2-lobe
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