sturtevant's notes on edible plants 149 



and to have grown it himself for some years before it became appreciatea. In 1778,' it is 

 said to be called Hamburg parsley and to be in esteem. In 1783, Bryant mentions its 

 frequent occurrence in the London markets. It was in American gardens in 1806. 



OreOselinum. Fuch. 573. 1542. 



PetrosePkium. Trag. 459. 1552. 



Apium. Cam. Epit. 526. 1586. 



Apium hortense Fuchsii. Bauh. J. 3:pt. 2, 97. 1651. 



Apium latifolium. Mill. Diet. 1737. 



Dutch parsley. Card. Kal. 127. 1765. 



Hamburg parsley. Mawe 1778. 



Broad-leaved. Mawe 1778. 



Hamburg or large rooted. McMahon 1806; Burr 433. 1863. 



Large rooted. Thorb. Kal. 1821. 



Persil tub&reux. L'Hort. Franc. 1824. 



Persil a grosse racine. Vilm. 405. 1883. 



A persil panache (plumed parsley) is mentioned by Pirolle, in L'Hort. Fran^ais, 1824. 



C. segentum Benth. & Hook. f. 



Europe. This is an aromatic, annual herb available for culinary purposes.^ 



C. sylvestre Baill. 



East Indies. This plant is used as a carminative by the natives.' 



Carya alba Nutt. Jugla^tdeae. shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory. 



North America. In 1773, at an Indian village in the South, Bartram* noticed a 

 cultivated plantation of the shellbark hickory, the trees thriving and bearing better than 

 those left to nature. Emerson * says this tree ought to be cultivated for its nuts which 

 differ exceedingly in different soils and situations and often on individual trees growing 

 in immediate proximity. In 1775, Romans ^ speaks of the Florida Indians using hickory 

 nuts in plenty and making a milky liquor of them, which they called milk of nuts. He 

 says: " This milk they are very fond of and eat it with sweet potatoes in it." The 

 hickory nut now not only furnishes food to a large number of the Indians of the far West 

 but is an important article in our markets and is even exported to Britain. 



C. microcarpa Nutt. small-fruited hickory. 



Eastern North America. The nuts are edible but not prized. 



C. olivaeformis Nutt. pecan. 



A slender tree of eastern North America from Illinois southward. The delicious 

 pecan is well known in our markets and is exported to Europe. It was eaten by the Indians 

 and called by them pecaunes. and an oil expressed from it was used by the natives of 



' Mawe and Abercrombie Univ. Card. Bot. 1778. 



MueUer, F. Set. Ph. 94. 1891. 



Royle, J. P. ' Illustr. Bot. Himal. 1:229. i839. 



* Hist. Mass. Hort. Soc. 28. 1880. 



'Emerson, G. B. Trees, Shrubs Mass. 1:217. 1875. 



Romans Nat. Hist. Fla. 1:68. 1775. 



