18S PEXTANDRIA DIGYN1A 



0\>8. This is much cultivated/or the 8dke of the succulent spicy petioles of /; 

 > ■: lical leaven, which arc use.:! as a salad : But in order to be rendered palatabUi 

 they require to be blanched, or subji .< <l to what is called etiolation, by the exclus ' • 

 of light, The var. ra pace urn. DC. with a roundish root, is sometimes uhitated 

 Inert are no native spe ies in the I . S ates% 



111. PETROSELINTIM. Hoffm. DC. Prodr. l.p.102, 



[Greek, Pelra 9 a, si no, and S> : , Stone Selinum: from its native habitat 1 



Petals roundish, incurved, scarcely 



I. P. sativum, Hoffm. Leaves decompound ; segments of the low- 

 er ones cuneate-ovate, trijid, and incised-dentate, of the upper ones 

 linear-lanceolate, nearly entire; involucels tubulate. DC. Prodr 

 1. p. 102. 



Api inn Petroselinum. Wind. Sp. 1. p. 1475. Pers. Syn. 1. p, 324, 

 Ait. Kew. 2. p. 161. Floral. Ccstr. p. 119, Lindl. Encv. p. 216. Eat 

 Man. p. 22. 



Common- Pbtroseltnum. Vulgd — Parsley. 



Gallicc — PersiL Genua nice — Die Petersilie. Hispanic^ — PerexiL 



Root biennial, fusiform, fleshy. Sinn "2 to \ feet /;/.<://, somewhat angular* stri* 

 ate with green and yellowish strip**, branched, smooth* Leaves smooth, andshi- 

 nitis: green; lower ones much dissected, terminal segmetds 3-parted] vpper ones 

 mostly Z-parled, with narrate sea mentB. Umbels terminal and «.: illary, peduncu- 

 late. Involucre often qf a single leaf, sometimes 2 or 3, linear or subulate. Invo- 

 lucels of 5 or fi short subulate leaves. Petals greenish while. Fruit ovate \ strict 

 *hort. ventre id. 



Hab. Guldens', common. FL June* Fr. August. 



Obs. The leaves are much used as a pot-herb, in soups, <$-c. The root is a pop- 

 ular diuretic. Thi var. crispum, or curled Parsley, with the lower leaves broader, 

 and curled on the margin, is also frequent in gardens. There are no native spe- 

 cies in the U. States. 



; ;:Jk U2. CARUM. /,. DC. Prodr. A. p. 114. 



[Said to be derived from Carta; the native country of the plant.] 



Calyx with the limb obsolete. Petals regular, obovate, emarginate, 

 with an inflexed apex. Fruit oval, or ovate-oblong, compressed at the 

 sides. Carpels with 5 equal ribs, of which the lateral ones are margi- 

 nal. Channels with single viitx. Commissive flat, with 2 vitt*. 

 Involucre and Involucels various, sometimes 0. 



1. C. Cahut, L. Leaves multijid, somewhat bipinnatifid ; segments 

 linear; involucre l-leaved, or ; involucels 0. DC. Prodr. 4. p. 115. 

 Cariajt Carux. Vulgo — Common Caraway. 

 Gallice— Carvi, Germanice- Gemeiner Xtm neL Hi8p.-Jlearavfc 



