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UMBELLIFER^E. XXXVIII. PETROSELINUM. XXXIX. WYDLERIA. 



no. 3. but not of Poir. P. sativum y latifolium, D. C. prod. 4. 

 p. 102. 



Use. The leaves of the two first varieties are used as pot- 

 herbs at all seasons of the year ; also as a 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 sovfing 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. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1548. 

 PI. 2 feet. 



2 P. PEREGRI'NUM (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 Hsenk. herb. A'mmi petroselinoides, Presl, mss. 

 Ligusticum peregrinum, Lin. spec. p. 368. Jacq. hort. vind. 3. 

 t. 18. Sison peregrmus, Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 409. 

 A'pium latifolium, Poir. diet. 4. p. 369. but not of Mill. Bu- 

 pleurum petroselinoides, Spreng. umb. prod. p. 39. and per- 

 haps A'pium Romanum, Zucc. cent. p. 57. Petals white, entire. 



Foreign Parsley. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1633. PI. 2 feet. 



3 P. SELINOI'DES (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.. H. Native 

 country unknown. Selinum peregrinum, Willd. enum. p. 306. 

 This plant differs from Gnldium apimdes, 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 bein-T 

 entire, not obcordate. 



Selinum-like Parsley. PI. 2 feet. 



4 P. PROSTR/OTUM (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. 

 I/. 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. PI. prostrate. 



5 P. SE'CETUM (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. O- 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 Tiree, Scotland. 

 Sison segetum, Lin. spec. 362. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 134. Smith, 

 engl. hot. 228. Sium segetum, Lam. diet. 1. p. 406. 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 

 Pimpinella. Flowers all fertile, white or even reddish. Teeth 

 of calyx rather conspicuous. Perhaps Sison arvensis, 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 

 Goo:lyer, with the origin of honewort, from its curing a swelling 

 in the cheek, called a hone, &c. is a model of precise infor- 

 mation. 



Corn Honewort. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PI. 1 to l 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. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete 

 (f. 60. a.). Petals ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminated (f. 60. 

 c.) ; acumen incurved. Fruit ovate, rather didymous, crowned 

 by the short stylopodium, and short reflexed styles (f. 60. 6.) ; 

 mericarps somewhat semi-terete, and rather contracted at the 

 margins ; furnished with 5 filiform thickish obtuse ribs at equal 

 distances ; having the furrows between these ribs furnished with 

 one vitta each, but the commissure is narrow, and furnished with 

 2 vittse ; all the vittae 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 



from it and Fceniculum, in the pe- 

 tals ending in long taper points. 

 It is also to be distinguished from 

 Cnldtum, in the fruit being some- 

 what contracted at the sides, and 

 in the ribs not being winged ; 

 from Seseli, in the calyx being 

 toothless, and from both these 

 last genera in the petals being 

 entire. 



1 W. PORTORICE'NSIS (D.C. 1. 

 c.) Q. F. Native of Porto Rico, 

 on the west coast, where it is cul- 

 tivated along with Musa para- 

 disiaca and Lepidium Virgmicwn,. 

 Plant a foot high and more. 



FIG. 60. 



