280 
no. 3. but not of Poir. 
p. 102. 
Use.—The leaves of the two first varieties are used as pot- 
herbs at all seasons of the year; also asa garnish. The third 
kind is esteemed for its large white carrot-shaped roots, drawn 
in winter like parsnips for the table; and occasionally to be used 
in medicine, being a good remedy for the gravel. 
Culture of the pot-herb kinds.— One sowing in spring will 
mostly furnish young leaves all the year, though to answer a 
constant demand, many persons make successive sowings from 
February to May. Some also sow early in autumn for young 
parsley in winter and spring ; but such a supply is better pro- 
vided by cutting down established plants. Sow in a single drill 
along the edge of any compartment, or occasionally in rows 9 or 
12 inches asunder. Draw small drills, something less than an 
inch deep, in which drop the seed moderately thick, and cover a 
little above half an inch. The plants will come up in 3 or 4 
weeks, and when 2 or 3 inches high, may be gathered as wanted 
all the summer, winter, and following spring till May, when 
' they will go to seed. Have always a young crop sown timely 
in the spring, to succeed the declining old plants, In gathering 
pot-herb parsley, cut close and regular. In summer, when the 
plants grow rank, yielding more leaves than can be used, cut 
them in close to the bottom, and they will shoot up stocky in 
a regular close growth. Observe also to do the same in autumn, 
about the end of September, that the plants may form heads of 
fresh young leaves before winter. On the approach of frosty 
weather protect them with haulm or reed-pannels, laid upon 
branches of birch or other light supports.” 
Culture of Hamburgh parsley.—* To obtain large roots allot 
a compartment where the soil is deep, and has been well dug. 
Any common mould will suit, if dry and not too rank. Sow in 
February, March, or early in April, in one or more beds; either 
in drills 9 inches asunder, or broad-cast, and rake it. The 
plants should be thinned to 9 inches distance, to give room for 
proper growth in the roots, for use in August, September, Octo- 
ber, and thence till the following spring. On the approach of 
frost take up some roots, and preserve them in sand. A sowing 
may be made in the third week in June, when young roots are 
wanted in winter.” 
To save seed.— Permit some old plants to run to stalks in 
May ; they will produce plenty of seed, ripening in July or Au- 
gust.” Abercrombie. 
Cultivated or Common Parsley. FI. June, July. Clt. 1548. 
Pl. 2 feet. 
2 P. perecrinum (Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 100. Koch, umb. 128.) 
stem erect, stiff, rather angular; petioles sheathing, scarious ; 
leaves shining; leaflets on long petioles, cuneated, deeply ser- 
rated ; leaves of both the involucrum and involucel linear. ¢. 
H. Native of Spain? Portugal? and on the mountains of Peru 
according to Hank. herb. A’mmi petroselinoides, Presl, mss. 
Ligitsticum peregrinum, Lin. spec. p. 368. Jacq. hort. vind. 3. 
t. 18. Sison peregrinus, Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 409. 
A‘pium latifolium, Poir. dict. 4. p. 369. but not of Mill. Bu- 
pletrum petroselinoides, Spreng. umb. prod. p. 39. and per- 
haps A‘pium Romanun, Zuce. cent. p. 57. Petals white, entire. 
Foreign Parsley. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1633. Pl. 2 feet. 
3 P.srtinorpgs (D. C. prod. 4. p. 102.) stem striated ; radi- 
cal leaves tripinnate: cauline ones bipinnate; leaflets pinna- 
tifid: lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, or tripartite; umbels 
drooping a little; involucrum almost absent.” Y%. Native 
country unknown. Selinum peregrinum, Willd. enum. p. 306. 
This plant differs from Gnidium apioides, to which it is joined 
by Sprengel, in the segments of the leaves being much larger, 
in the petals being cream coloured, not white, and in being 
entire, not obcordate, 
P. sativum y latifdlium, D. C. prod. 4. 
UMBELLIFERA. XXXVIII. PETROSELINUM. 
XXXIX. WYDLERIA. 
Selinum-like Parsley. Pl. 2 feet. 
4 P. prostra‘tum (D. C. prod. 4. p. 102.) stem procumbent, 
flexuous ; [leaves pinnate; leaflets petiolate, pinnatifid: lobes 
5-7-lanceolate: ultimate ones trifid at the apex ; umbels nearly 
sessile, opposite the leaves; involucrum usually of one leaf. 
y. F. Native of Van Diemen’s Land. A'pium prostratum, 
Labill. nov. holl. 1. p. 76. t. 103. Vent. malm. t. 81. Schultes, 
syst. 6. p. 430. Herb edible. 
Prostrate Parsley. Pl. prostrate. ; 
5 P. sr’czrum (Koch, umb. p. 128.) stem erect, twiggy, 
nearly naked; leaves pinnate ; leaflets nearly sessile, roundish- 
ovate, pinnatifidly cut, mucronately toothed: upper lobes linear; 
involucrum 2-3-leaved; rays of umbel very unequal. ; ©.H 
Native of Britain, France, Caucasus, and Switzerland, in corn- 
fields, vineyards, and gardens. In Britain in a chalky rather 
moist soil, but not very common; as about Mapledurham, 
Hants ; at Binham, Norfolk ; near Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire ; 
at Walthamstow, Essex; and in the island of Tirée, Scotland. 
Sison ségetum, Lin. spec. 362. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 134. Smith, 
engl. bot. 228. Sium ségetum, Lam. dict. 1. p. 4.06.—Mor. 
hist. 3. p. 283. sect. 9. t. 5. f.6. Flowers and fruit agreeing 
with the rest of the genus Petroselinum, but the habit is that of 
Pimpinélla. Flowers all fertile, white or even reddish. Teeth 
of calyx rather conspicuous. Perhaps Sison arvénsis, Brot. fl. 
lus. 1. p. 424. and Schultes, syst. 6. p. 418. is not distinct from 
this. The whole account of this herb by that accurate observer 
Goodyer, with the origin of honewort, from its curing a swelling 
in the cheek, called a hone, &c. is a model of precise infor- 
mation. i 
Corn Honewort. FI. July, Aug. Britain. Pl. 1 to 14 feet 
Cult. The species will grow in any soil, and they are only to 
be propagated by seed. 
XXXIX. WYDLERIA (in honour of H. Wydler, who has 
written a monograph of the genus Scrophularia). D.C. coll. 
mem. v. p. 36. t. 7. prod. 4. p. 103. 
Lin. syst. Penténdria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete 
(f. 60. a.). Petals ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminated (f. 60. 
c.); acumen incurved. Fruit ovate, rather didymous, crowne 
by the short stylopodium, and short reflexed styles (f 60. b.); 
mericarps somewhat semi-terete, and rather contracted at vr 
margins; furnished with 5 filiform thickish obtuse ribs at cto 
distances ; having the furrows between these ribs furnished wit 
one vitta each, but the commissure is narrow, and furnished with 
2 vittee; all the vittee are very narrow. Carpophore bifid.— 
A smooth West Indian herb, with a terete branched erect stem; 
ternate leaves, with multifid leaflets, and cuneated lobes. In- 
volucrum none or only of one leaf, but the involucels are many 
leaved. Flowers white, not sufficiently known. This genus, 
according to Koch, is allied to Petroselinum, but differs both 
FIG. 60. 
from it and Feeniculum, in the pe- 
tals ending in Jong taper points. 
It is also to be distinguished from 
Cnidium, in the fruit being some- 
what contracted at the sides, and 
in the ribs not being winged ; 
from Séseli, in the calyx being 
toothless, and from both these 
last genera in the petals being 
entire. 
1 W. Porrtoricr’nsis (D.C. 1. 
c.) ©. F. Native of Porto Rico, 
on the west coast, where it is cul- 
tivated along with Musa para- 
disiàca and Lepidium Virginicum. 
Plant a foot high and more, 
