170 xxxvm. miBELLiFERvV. \_A'pium. 
eat the leaves with impunity, for Linnaeus (Lach. Lap. II. p. 136.) 
held a quite different opinion. 
5. A'pium Linn. Celery. (Tab. I. f. 5.) 
Flowers perfect. Fruit roundish-ovate, didymous ; carpels 
with 5 slender ribs, with single vittce between them and two 
on the suture : carpophore entire. Cal. -teeth obsolete. Pet. 
roundish entire, with a small involute or indexed point (Invo- 
lucres 0.) — Name from ap, ab, or av, meaning water in various 
ancient languages ; the plant growing in such places. 
1. A . grav Nolens L. (Wild C.) ; point of petals involute. 
E. B. t. 1210. 
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 flowers. — Origin of our 
garden celery. 
6. Petroselinum Hoffm. Parsley. (Tab. I. f. 6.) 
Fruit ovate. Carpels with 5 slender ribs, and vittce in the 
interstices; carpophore bipartite. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. 
roundish, with a narrow incurved point. (Involucre of few , 
partial of many, leaves .) — .Name: ntrpoi-, a stone; being a 
native of rocky or stony places. 
1. Y.* sativum Hoffm. (common P.) ; leaves tripinnate shining, 
lower leaflets ovate-cuneate trifid and toothed, upper ones 
ternate lanceolate nearly entire, partial involucres filiform. 
E. B. S. t. 2793. Apium Petroselinum L. 
Frequent on old walls, especially in the south-west of England. 
Blarney Castle, near Cork. $ . 6 — 8. 
2. P. segetum Koch (Corn 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, Sussex ; and between Esher and West Moulsev, 
Surrey. Isle of Wight. $. 8, 9. — Stem 1 foot to 1 J high, wiry, 
spreading, branched. Universal involucre of about two leaves. Fruit 
strongly ribbed. 
7. Trinia Hoffm. Ilonewort. (Tab. I. f. 7.) 
Dioecious. Fruit ovate. Carpels with 5 prominent ribs, and 
single vittce beneath them. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pel. of the 
