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Hesperis (Greek, evening, same root as vesper; flowers more fragrant at evening). Cruciferae. This includes the dame's rocket, a vigorous old-fashioned hardy herbaceous perennial.

Herbs, biennial or with a st. that is perennial at the base, pilose, the hairs simple, forked or glandular: st.- lvs. usually sparse, ovate or oblong, entire, dentate or lyrate: fls. white or purple, in loose racemes, often fragrant; petals 4, long- clawed; stigma lobed and erect: pods long, linear, cylindrical or nearly so; seeds in 1 row in each cell, usually wingless. The genus is allied to the stocks, but has a somewhat different habit and the cotyledons incumbent not accumbent.—Species about 2 dozen in the Medit. region to Cent. Asia.
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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