STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS I47 



parsley pies. The plant is now naturalized in some parts of England and Scotland. 

 Parsley is mentioned as seen on the coast of Massachusetts by Verazzano,' about 1524, 

 but this is undoubtedly an error. Two kinds, the common and curled, are mentioned 

 for our gardens by McMahon," 1806. Fessenden,' 1828, names three sorts, and Thor- 

 biun,* 1 88 1, itux sorts. 



At the present time we have five forms; the common or plain-leaved, the celery- 

 leaved or Neapolitan, the curled, the fern-leaved and the Hambiarg, or tvimip-rooted. 



I. 

 Plain-Leaved Parsley. 

 The plain-leaved form is not now much grown, having been superseded by the more 

 ornamental, curled forms. In 1552, Tragus ' says there is no Idtchen-garden in Germany 

 without it and it is used by the rich as well as the poor. Matthiolus,* 1558 and -1570, 

 says it is one of the most common plants of the garden. In 1778, Mawe ' says it is the 

 sort most commonly grown in English gardens but many prefer the curled kinds; in 1834, 

 Don * says it is seldom cultivated. It was in American gardens in 1806. 



Apium hortense. Matth. 362. 1558; 512. 1570; 562. 1598; Pin. 333. 1561; 

 Dalechamp 700. 1587; Lob. Icon. 706. 1591; Ger. 861. 1597; Dod. 694. 1616. 



Garden parsley. Lyte Dod. 696. 1586. 



Common parsley. Ray 448. 1686; McMahon 127. 1806. 



Plane parsley. Mawe 1778. 



Common plain-leaved. Don 3:279. 1834. 



Plain parsley. Biur. 433. 1863. 



Persil commun. Vilm. 403. 1883. 



II. 

 The Celery-Leaved or Neapolitan. 



The Celery-leaved, or Neapolitan, is scarcely known outside of Naples. It differs 

 from common parsley in the large size of its leaves and leaf-stalks and it may be blanched 

 as a celery.' It was introduced into France by Vilmorin in 1823. ^^ Pliny mentions pars- 

 leys with thick stalks and says the stalks of some are white. This may be the Apium 

 hortense maximum of Bauhin," 1596, as the description applies well. He says it is now 

 grown in gardens and was first called English Apium. He does not mention it in his Pinax, 

 1623, under the same name, but under that of latifolium. Linnaeus'^ considers this to 

 be Ligusticum peregrinum. 



' Tytler Prog. Disc. No. Coast Amer. 36. 1833. 



- McMahon, B. Amer. Card. Cat. 127. 1806. 



' Fessenden New Amer. Card. 222. 1828. 



*Thorbum Cat. 1881. 



Tragus Stirp. 459. 1552. 



Matthiolus Comment. 362. 1558; 512. 1570. 



' Mawe and Abercrombie Univ. Card. Bot. 1778. (Apium petroselinum) 



Don, G. Hisf. Dich. Pis. 3:279. 1834. 



Vilmorin Les Pis. Potag. 404. 1883. 



^oViroWe L'Hort. Franc. 1823; Bon Jard. 254. 1824-25. 



" Bauhin, C. Phytopinax 268. 1596. 



" Linnaeus 5^. P^ 1680. 2nd Ed. 



