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Marshy places, especially near the sea; not unfrequent in England. 

 Musselburgh, Scotland. $. 6 — 8. — Stem furrowed, 2 feet high. 

 Leaves glabrous, pinnate or ternate ; leaflets of the upper leaves wedge- 

 shaped, lobed and cut at the extremity ; the lower leaves are upon 

 long stalks with their leaflets rounder and truncate at the base. 

 Umbels often sessile; peduncled ones of few Jiowers, — Origin of our 

 garden Celery, 



6. Petuoselinum Hoffm. Parsley. (Tab. I. f. 6.) 



Fruit ovate. 



Carpels with 5 slender ribs, and vittcB in the 



CaL-teeth obsolete. Pet. 



interstices ; carpophore bipartite, 

 roundish, with a narrow incurved point. 



— Name : 



(Involucre of few ^ 

 a stone; bein^j^ a 



partial of many^ leaves,) — x\ame; Tterpog. 

 native of rocky or stony places. 



1. 'P. "^sativum Hoffm. (^common P.) ; leaves tripinnate slilnino-^ 

 lower leaflets ovate- cuneate trifid and toothed, tipper ones 

 ternate lanceolate nearly entire, partial involucres filiform. 

 E. B. S. t. 2793. Apium Petroselinum L. 



m 



Frequent on old walls, especially in the south-west of England. 

 Blarney Castle, near Cork. $, 6 — 8. 



2. P. 



segetum Koch (d 



rn P.) ; radical leaves pinnate, 

 leaflets nearly sessile ovate lobed cut and serrate, upper leaves 

 with 1 — 3 linear leaflets, rays of the umbels few and unequal. 

 Sison L. E. B. t. 228. 



Moist fields, chiefly on calcareous soils, in several parts of the 

 middle and south of England. Sea-shore, between Bognor and 

 Little Hampton; and between Esher and West Moulsey, Surrey, 

 Isle of Wight. $. 8, 9. — Stem 1 foot to 1^ high, wiry, spreading, 

 branched. Universal involucre of about 2 leaves, 

 ribbed. 



Fruit strongly 



I 



Hoffm. Honewort. 



) 



Dioecious. Fruit ovate. Carpels with 5 prominent ribs, and 



smgle vittcB beneath them. CalAeeth obsolete. Pet, of the 



harren fl. lanceolate with a narrow involute point ; of the fertile 



ovate, with a short inflected point. — JSTamed in honour of Dr. 



C. B. Trinius^ a Russian botanist, author of " Species Grami- 

 num,'' &c. • . 



1. T. vulgdrisJ) C. (common H,) ; glabrous, leaves tripinnate, 

 leaflets linear filiform, involucre none or of one leaf, ribs of 

 the fruit obtuse. 

 -E. B. t. 1209. 



Limestone, rare. Near Bristol, on St. Vincent's Rocks; at Up- 

 mil, Somersetshire; Whorle Hill, Somerset; Bury Head, Devon. 

 ^ear Athboy, county of Meath, Ireland. 1^.. 5, 6. — Whole herb 

 glaucous-green, pale, remarkable for the narrow segments of its leaves, 

 ^"d Its dioecious /o2rers. Root fusiform. . 



T. glaberrima a. Hoffm. Pimpinella dioica 



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