CXLIIt. 



PETROSELINUM SATIVUM. 



Common Parsley, 



Class V. Pentandria.— Order II. Digynia. 



Nat. Ord. Umbelliferje. 



Gen. Char. Calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, incurved, 

 entire, scarcely emarginate, with an inflexed point. 

 Fruit ovate, contracted laterally, sub-didymous. Car- 

 pels with 5 filiform equal ridges, of which the lateral 

 ones are marginal. Channels with single vittae. Seed 

 gibbous, convex, nearly plane in front. — General invo- 

 lucre of few ; partial oimany leaves. 



Spec. Char. Leaves decompound, shining ; lower leaf- 

 lets ovate-cuneate, trifid, toothed ; upper lanceolate 

 nearly entire. Leaves of involucel filiform. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek.... vtrgocriXivov. 



f Apium hortense, Petroselinum vulgo. Bauh. Pin. 153. 



f Apium hortense. Ger. Em. 1013. Raii Hist. 448. 



I Petroselinum vulgare. Park. Theatr. 923. 

 ' ~) Apium Petroselinum. Lin. Sp. PI. 379. 



J Apium vulgare. Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. p. 1027- 



I Petroselinum sativum. Hoffm. Umb. i.p.78. Koch. Umb. p. 127- 

 French. . . Persil ; Persil ordinaire. 

 Italian... Petrosemolo; Prezzemolo. 

 Spanish . . Perexil. 



Port Perekil ; Apio. 



German . . Petersilie ; Garteneppich. 



Dutch .... Peterselie. 



Danish. . . Persille. 



Swedish . . Persilia. 



Polish.... Pietruske. 



Bohemian. Petrzel. 



Russ Petruschka. 



Armenian.. Niachur. 

 Egypt .... Baqdunis. 



