PASsrcM noHTUS .TAMAICENSIS. $9 



striated on one side, plane on the other. There are two species, natives of Europe, 

 both of which have been introduced, and have thriven well in Jamaica. 



1. PETROSELINUM. PARSLEY. 



Stem-leaflets linear; invalucels minute. 



The stems- of parsley or smallage are round, smooth, striated. Usually there is onr: 

 leaflet at the origin of the universal umbel, and an involucre of six t'o eight foliof s, 

 fine almost as hairs, at the partial umbel. Flowers pale yellow, regular; petals small* 

 long, narrow, acuminate, in flex ; seed- short, turgid. There are several varieties, hut 

 the curled is thought the best. 



The roots and seeds of the petroselinum are used in medicine. The root of parsley 

 is thought to-be aperient, and, in this intention, is sometimes made an ingredient i:i 

 apozems and diet-drink : if liberally used, it is apt to-occasion flatulencies ; and thus, 

 by distending the viscera, producing a contrary effect to that i iten led by it : the ta^ce 

 of this root is so uewhat sweetish, with a light degree of warmth and aromatic It ivour. 

 The seeds are warmer and more aromatic, and are an ingredient in the electuary of 

 lMybcrnes. The roots of smallage are also in the number if apt ri nt roots, a I have 

 been sometimes prescribed as an ingredient in aperient a lozems and diet drinks, but 

 are at present disregarded. The seeds of the plant are m > ler ,itei\ aromati , . n were 

 formerly used as carminatives ; in whifch intention they are loubtless capable o ioing 

 service, though che other warm seeds, -which -the shops are furnished with, are pre- 

 ferred. Besides its medicinal virtues, parsley is reckoned an effectual cure for the tot 

 in sheep, provided they are fed with it for two or three hours each time, twice a week. 

 Hares and rabbits are very fond of this herb. 



2. GRATBOtENS. STRONG-SCENTETV' 



Celery has a smooth shining stem, deeply furrowed ; leaves alternate, radical, pin- 

 nated, ternate ; piunas tnfid, gash -serrate, shining, smooth; upper leaves ternate, 

 sub-sessile. Umbel sub-sessile or peduncled, with about fifteen unequal rays at each 

 axilla, supported by a trifid leaf: universal involucre often wanting. l corollas snniii, 

 white ; seeds very small. This plant has much the same virtues as the other. 



PASSION FLOWERS. PASSIFLORA. 



Cr.. 20, OR; 4. Gynandria- pentandria.* Nat. or. Cucurbitacctc-. 



Sen. chah. See Bud-Hoof, p. 123. The following species are indigenous to Ja- 

 maica, as well as tho->e referred to under English names. Swartz cla^sto this"genu< 

 monaudpkta ptutanaria. 



With undivided leaves* 



1. LAURIFOLIA. LAURfcL- LEAVED. 



Foliis ovatis, petiolis biglandulis, bacca molli ovata. Browne, p. 327'. 

 Leaves ovate, quite entire; petioles bigiandular ; involucres toothed. 

 Stem suffrutescent, with very divaricating filiform branches; leaves a little emar- 

 einate at the base, nerved^, and Very smooth, on short petioles, -compressed a little, 



having 



