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A native apparently of the eastern 

 Mediterranean region, much cultivated 

 throughout Europe, and often establishes 

 itself in waste places. In Britain it ap- 

 pears quite naturalized in maritime rocks 

 in several parts of northern and western 

 England. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 401. 



2. Corn Parsley. Petroselinum segetum, Koch. (Fig. 402.) 

 (Bison* Eng. Bot. t. 228.) 



A glabrous, much branched, slender 

 annual, 9 to 18 inches high or sometimes 

 more. Leaves chiefly radical, not un- 

 like 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 into linear 

 bracts. Umbels very irregular, the rays 

 few and very unequal ; the partial um- 

 bels containing but few flowers, some 

 quite sessile, others on pedicels varying 

 from 1 to 6 lines in length. Flowers 

 small, white. Fruit 1\ to 2 lines long, 

 often curved 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. Fl. summer and autumn. 

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

 Parsley. 



Much 



