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1. Common Parsley. Fetroselinum sativum, Hoffm. 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2793.) 



An erect, glabrous biennial, or sometimes lasting 3 or 4 years, 1 to 2 feet 

 liigh, with a thick root and stiff branches. Leaves triangular in their 

 general outline, twice pinnate; the segments stalked, ovate, lobed and 

 toothed ; the upper leaves less divided, with narrow, often Unear, entire 

 segments. Umbels aU stalked, not very large, but with 15 to 20 or even 

 more rays ; the general involucre consisting of 2 to 4 or 5 short linear 

 bracts, the partial ones of several smaller bracts. Tlowers rather small, 

 of a greenish yeUow. 



A native apparently of the eastern Mediterranean region, much cultivated 

 throughout Europe, and often estabhshes itself in waste places. In Britain 

 it appears quite naturahzed in maritime rocks in several parts of northern 

 and western England. Fl. summer. -^ 



2. Com Parsley. Fetroselinum segetum, Koch. 



{Sison, Eng. Bot. t. 228.) 



A glabrous, much branched, slender annual, 9 to 18 inches high or 

 sometimes more. Leaves chiefly radical, not unUke those of the common 

 Pimpinel, but smaller, simply pinnate, with 5 to 10 pairs of sessile, ovate, 

 toothed or lobed segments 3 to 6 lines long ; the upper leaves few and 

 small, merging inUi Hnear bracts. L^mbels very irregular, the rays few 

 and veiy uii -qual; the partial vimbels containing but few flowers, some quite 

 sessile, others on pedicels varying from 1 to 6 lines in length. Flowers 

 small, white. Eruit 1\ to 2 lines long, often cui-ved by the abortion of 

 one of the carpels. 



In fields and waste places, dispersed over central Europe and western 

 Asia, but apparently wanting both in the north and in the south. In 

 Britain only in southern and central England. M. summer and autumn. 

 Much nearer allied in habit to the Caraway and to the hedge Sison than 

 to Parsley. 



X. TRINXA. TEINIA. 



Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, without involucres, or with a 

 single bract. Flowers dicEcious. Petals entire, with an inflected point. 

 Fruit short, somewhat laterally compressed, without visible calycine teeth. 

 Carpels ovoid, with 5 prominent ribs, and single vittas, under or within the 

 ribs themselves, not under the interstices, as in most Umbellates. 



A very small genus, chiefly south European and west Asiatic, with a 

 pecuUar habit, and difiering fi-om Apium chiefly in the dioecious flowers, 

 and the position of the vittas of the fruit. 



1. Common Trinia. Trinia vulgaris, DO. 



{Pimpinella dioioa, Eng. Bot. t. 1209.) 

 Stock perennial, short and thick, alniost woody, forming a tap-root at its 

 base. Stems annual, erect, stiff and angular, with numerous spreading 

 branches, 6 inches to near a foot liigh, the whole plant glabrous, with a 

 glaucous hue. Leaves finely cut into stiff, narrow-linear or subulate seg- 

 ments ; the radical ones twice pinnate, with ternate, entire segments, 3 to 6 

 lines long, the upper ones twice or only once ternate. Umbels smaU and 

 numerous, on slender peduncles, forming a loose panicle, each with 4 to 6 



