198 ujiBELLrFER^. [Petroselinum. 



1. A. graveolens, L. Wild Celery. Smallage. " Point of 

 petals involute."— £r. Fl. p. 161. E. B. t. 1210. 



In wet marshy places, sides of ditches, pools and streams, in various parts of 

 the island, plentiful ; most commonly near salt water. Fl. July — September. 

 Fr. September, October. $ . 



E. Med. — Ditches on the Dover, Eyde. Near Quarr abbey, also at the mouth 

 of the little brook between Ryde and Binstead. At Bembridge, at Lane end. 



W. Med. — Salt-ditches in Yarmouth and Freshwater marshes, abundant. In 

 great plenty along the stream called the Newtown river, above Shalfleet, where 

 the water is, I believe, quite fresh. Common at Brixton. By the Medina, a lit- 

 tle below Newport, in several places ; and at Coppings bridge. Common on wet 

 slipped land below the road from Niton to Blackgang. Cliffs between the new 

 Lighthouse and Blackgang, Dr. Martin. By mill-ponds and mill-streams at 

 Carisbrooke and Newport. 



Herb smooth and shining, usually of a pale green, especially in salt-marshes. 

 Root tapering. Stems 2 — 3 feet high, erect, deeply furrowed and angular, 

 branched. Lower leaves biternate, on long footstalks, with wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, 

 obtusely cut and notched leaflets ; upper ones simply ternate, their leaflets nar- 

 rower, acutely incised and lobed. Umbels lateral and terminal, of about 10 or 12 

 long general rays, and more numerous very short partial ones, both destitute of 

 involucres (sometimes, it is said, a single involucral leaf is present under the gene- 

 ral umbel). Flowers very small, white with a tinge of green, all perfect. Fruit 

 (syndicarps) extremely small for the size of the plant, not a line in length, very 

 broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, dark purplish brown when ripe ; hemicarps 

 rounded at back, contracted a little in front, with 5 pale, equidistant, filiform, 

 wavy ridges, the lateral pair marginal, interstices with single? or more? very 

 indistinct vitta. Stylopodes small, conical. Carpophore entire. 



VII. Peteoselinum, Hoffm. Parsley. 



" Fruit ovate. Carpels with 5 slender ribs, and vittce in the 

 interstices ; carpophore bipartite. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals 

 roundish, with a narrow incurved point. (Involucre of few, par- 

 tial of many, leaves)."- — Br. Fl. 



*1. P. saiivitm, Hoffm. Common or Garden Parsley. "Leaves 

 tripinnate shining, lower leaflets ovate-cuneate trifid and toothed, 

 upper ones ternate lanceolate nearly entire, partial involucres 

 fiUform." — ^r. Fl. p. 162. E. B. S. t. 2V93. Apium Petroseli- 

 num, L. 



Naturalized here and there on walls, rocks, banks and waste ground, but quite 

 persistent where once established. Fl. July, August. Fr. September. 3' . 



E.Med. — On a wall by the roadside from Niton towards Blackgang, just 

 beyond Buddie. Hedgebank on Apse heath. On the stone facing of the steep 

 bank below the church at Newchurch, abundant, Dr. Bell-Salter .'.'.' In Luc- 

 combe chine, Miss G. Kilderhee .'.'.' 



W. Med. — Walls of Carisbrooke castle, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 



Herb perfectly glabrous. Root long, white, simple and tapering. Stem erect, 

 about 2 feet hifjh, round, striated, branched. Leaves daik green, those at and 

 near the root paler or yellowish, on long footstalks, triternate, the leaflets ovate or 

 somewhat heart-shaped, deeply and acutely cut and lobed : upper ones biternate, 

 on short petioles, their segments lanceolate, simple or lobed, the terminal ones 

 mostly trifid. Vmhels lateral and terminal, flaltish, on long stalks, many-rayed, 

 with a general involucre of very few, often solitary, linear leaflets ; umbellules of 

 numerous short spreading rays, and with an involucre of many linear-lanceolate, 

 unequal, mucronate leaflets. Flowers small, greenish yellow, all perfect. Petals 



