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Apium Linn. Celery. Smallage. 
A. graveolens [h.) — E.B. 1210. — Marshes and ditches, especially 
near the sea. — D. Frequent. Laira and Long-bridge, near Ply- 
mouth ; Wembury ; near Colebrook, Plympton. Topsham 
marshes ; Lympstone ; Hackney marshes, near Kingsteignton ; 
banks of the Dart, near Totnes ; Kingskerswell, near the church; 
near Torquay (Rev. A. Neck) : Fl. Dev. Bridgetown marshes : 
Fl. Tot. Behind Torre abbey ; banks of the Dart, near Totnes : 
Tor.Fl. Braunton : Rav. — C- Calstock; near Lostwithiel. Pen- 
zance, &c. : Bail. MS. Damp places near the sea [Falmouth], 
"plentiful:" Polytech. 1856. 
" Not rare [in the vicinity of Plymouth] near salt-water inlets and tidal 
rivers." — Briggs MS. 
Petroselinum Hoffm. 
* P. sativum {Ro^m)— E.B. S. 2793.— Rocks and old walls.— 
D- " Perfectly established on rocks at Ilfracombe :" Bav. (It must 
be, I think, through an oversight that in the same book "Plym- 
bridge and Deadlake near Plymouth" are given as stations for this 
species. The next used to be found there.) Quite naturalized on a 
rocky bank by the side of the Plymouth and Yealmpton road, near 
the turning to Elburton village : Briggs MS. — C- Old garden 
ground, Pendennis, &c. : Polytech. 1856. Parsley. 
Can we look at this plant as anything but an escape from cultivation ? 
" On some parts of the southern coasts, * * * as those of Devon, it might 
fairly be considered a naturalized plant." — Cyh. Brit. i. 430. 
P. segetum (Koch). — Sison Sm., E.B., 228. — Damp calcareous 
fields, hedges, and near the sea. — D. Frequent. A few years 
since it grew in Deadlake-lane, in the outskirts of Plymouth : 
Gould. Now I fear extirpated. Near Puslinch (1863). Between 
Lipson and Laira (Phytol. v. n.s. 369) ; near Elburton; Crabtree : 
Briggs. Chudleigh; Ashburton; Ilsington; Lympstone: Fl. Dev. 
Near Braunton : Scriv. in Rav. — C- Near Torpoint : Briggs MS. 
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