44 The American Naturalist. [January, 
Apium hortense. Matth., 1558, 362; 1570, 512; 1598, 562; 
Pia, 1561, 333; Lugd., 1537, 700; Lob. ic. 1591, 706; Ger; 
1597, 861 ; Dod., 1616, 694. 
Garden parsley. Lyte’s Dod., 1586, 696. 
Common parsley. Ray, 1686, 448; McMahon, 1806, 127. 
Plane parsley. Mawe, 1778. 
Common plain leaved. Don, 1834, III., 279. 
Plain parsley. Burr, 1863, 433. 
Persil commun. Vilm., 1883, 403. 
II. The celery-leaved or Neapolitan is scarcely known outside 
of Naples. It differs from the common parsley in the large size 
of its leaves and leaf stalks, and it may be blanched as a celery.” 
It was introduced into France by Vilmorin in 1823. Pliny 
mentions parsleys with thick stalks, and says the stalks of some 
are white. It may be the Apium hortense maximum of Bauhin™ 
in 1596, as the description applies well. He says it is now 
grown in gardens, and was first called English Apium. He does 
‘not mention it in his Pinax, 1623, under the same name, but 
under that of /atifolium. Linnzus™ considers this to be the 
Ligusticum austriacum Jacq. 
It is figured by Bauhin in his Prodromus." I have never seen it. 
Persil celeri ou de Naples. L'Hort. Fran., 1824. 
Naples or Celery-leaved. Burr, 1863, 434. 
Persil grand de Naples. Vilm., 1883, 404. 
III. The curled parsleys. Of these we have many varieties, 
differing but in degree, such as the curled, extra curled, moss 
curled, and triple curled. Pena & Lobel, in 1570, mention this 
form, and say it is very elegant and rare, brought from the 
mountains the past year and grown in gardens, the leaves curled 
on the borders, very graceful and tremulous, with minute incis- 
ions. In the synonymy many of the figures do not exhibit the 
curled aspect which the name and description indicates; we hence 
make two divisions, the curled and the very curled. The curled 
was in American gardens preceding 1806. 
131 Vilmorin. The Veg. Gard., 1885, 380. 4 Linnzus. Sp., 2d ed 
1680. 
132 L'Hort. Fran., 1824; Bon. ae 1824-5,254. 13 Bauhin. Piodseteen; 1671, 80. 
133 Bauhin. Phytopin., 1596, 268 136 Pena & Lobel. Adv., 1570, 315- 
