+ 
its ORD. VI. Umbellate. 
APIUM PETROSELINUM. COMMON PARSLEY. 
SYNVONYMA. Petroselinum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Apium 
hortense vulgo Petroselinum. Bawh, Pin, p. 153. Petroselinu:m 
vulgare. Park. Theat. p. 922. Apium hortense. Gerard. Emar. 
p. 1013, Raii. Hist, p. 1448. 
* Apium sativum. Riv. pent. $8. Common ‘Parsley. 
‘® Apium crispum. Riv. pent. 90.  -—_ Curled Parsley. 
y Apium radice esculenta. Hort. Ups. 67. Large rooted Parsley. 
Aiton’s Hort. Kew. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 367. 
Ess. Gen, Ch. Fructus ovatus, striatus. —— i-phyllun. 
: Petala qualia. | 
Sp. Ch. ..A. foliolis caplinie ee ea javolucelis minutis. 
“THE. cnptis Bieomiak: long: bee » and beset with fibres: the 
stem is upright, round, s sranched, jointed, rf 
rises two feet in height: the ig ae are with footstalk: 
compound, pinnated in ternaries: the leafits are smooth, weined, 
divided into three lobes, and ounekil at the margin: the.leaves of 
the stalk proceed from the vaginal sheaths at the joints, and have 
the leafits cut into narrow linear entire segménts: the flowers are 
small, of a yellow colour, and terminate the stem and branches in 
umbels composed. of general and partial radii; the former are 
about ten in number; and the ‘latter twenty im each~ umbel ‘it 
seldom has a general involucrum, but the partial involucrum 
consists of six or’ eight leafits; ‘unequal, pointed, spreading, | and 
Shorter than the umbel: the corolla consists of five oval petals, 
which have their points inflected: the filaments are five, spreading, 
slender, twice the length of the corolla, and crowned with roundish 
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