APIUM PETROSELINUM. COMMON PARSLEY 



STNO NTMA, Petrofelinum. Pharm. Lond, l^ Ed'inh. Apiuin 

 hortenfe vulgo Petrofelinum. Baiih, Fin. p, 153. Petrofelinum 



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vulgare. Park.Theat,p,Q)22» Apium hortenfe. Gerard. Emac, 



1 01 3. Rail Hi/I. p. i/^^S. 



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« Apium fativum. Riv. pent. %^. Common Parlley* 



^ Apium crifpum. Riv. pent. 90. Curled Parlley. 



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y Apium radice efculenta. Hort. Upf. Gj, Large rooted Parfley. 



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Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen, Plant. 367. 



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Ejf. Gen. Ch. Frn&ns ovatus, llriatus. Involucrum i-phyllum* 



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Pefala xquaiia 



Sp, Ch. A. foliolis caulinis liiiearibus, involucellis minutis. 



THE root is biennial, long, white, and befet with fibres : the 

 item is upright, round, feored, branched, jointed, and ufually rifes 

 two feet in height: the radical leaves are with footftalks, com- 

 pound, pinnated in ternaries : the leaiits are fmooth, veined, divided- 

 into three lobes, and notched at the mars:in : the leaves of the 



ftalk proceed from the vaginal flieaths at the joints, and have the 

 leafits cut into narrow linear entire ferments : the flowers are fmalL 



of a yellow colour, and terminate the ftem and branches in umbels 

 compofed of general and partial radii; the form.er are about ten in 

 number, and the latter twenty in each umbel; it feldom has a general 

 involucrum, but the partial involucrum conhfts of lix or eight leafits, 

 unequal, pointed, fpreading, and fliorter than the umbel : the corolla 

 confifls of five oval petals, which have their points infledied: the 

 filaments are five, fpreading, flender, twice the length of the corolla 

 and crowned with roundifh anthers: the germen is oval, ftriated 

 and fupports two fhort reHefted ftyles, terminated with obtufe flig- 

 mata : the feeds are of a dark green colour, oblong, angular, flriated 

 flat on one fide, and convex on the other. It is a native of Sardinia 

 and flowers in June and July* . 



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