A pure white Hesperis matronalis was also common, but I saw no purple forms of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference

"It's said among us that the Dame's Hesperis breathes forth a scent that even the most reluctant swain finds impossible to resist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

While not commonly sold as a plant in garden centers, the seeds of dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis) are promoted as a wildflower, though technically it is an introduced species from Eurasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden Thugs] Reference

They vary in height from 12in. to 18in., branching candelabra-like, the flowers being produced in terminal spikes, arranged in the way of, and very much resembling, the double stocks -- in fact, the Hesperis used to be called "Queene's Gilloflower.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Rocket (Hesperis Matronalis), white and purple; two feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Hardy Garden] Reference

Hesperis, columbine, and geranium contrasted their floral colours with the deep green of the young grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

The Hesperides were also "daughters of Atlas;" their mother was Hesperis, a personification of "the region of the West.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

Apples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference

I have ventured to suggest then that the closing of flowers may have reference to the habits of insects, and it may be observed also in support of this, that wind-fertilised flowers do not sleep; and that many of those flowers which attract insects by smell, open and emit their scent at particular hours; thus Hesperis matronalis and Lychnis vespertina smell in the evening, and Orchis bifolia is particularly sweet at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference

Hesperis matronalis flore-pleno, 141.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Hesperis said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thank you Jana Mackey] Reference

Hesperis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Hesperis matronalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The Hesperis assumes a Violet's Name 144.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants] Reference

Damaßbtcem - Hesperis matronalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Hesperis, 271.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference

Hesperis matronalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Hesperis, 19, 136, 295 matronalis, 20, 252, 280, 325, 500.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference