stone-parsley
The umbelliferous herb Sison Amomum; also applied to Seseli Libanotis and other species (Mountain Stone-parsley), Sison being then sometimes distinguished as Bastard Stone-parsley.
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 61 Petroselinum named in latine Apium saxatile is not our commune persely..but..an other herbe, as I do thynke,..Whiche may be called in englishe stone persely or Lumberdy parsely. 1635 Swan Spec. Mundi (1670) 218 There is Apium Hortense, garden⁓parsley; and apium palustre, water parsley (which is Smallage) and Apium montanum, mountain Parsley; and Petrapium, or Petroselinum Macedonicum, which we in England call Stone Parsley. 1744 J. Wilson Synopsis Brit. Plants 68 Sium aromaticum Sison Off... Bastard Stone-parsley. Ibid. 72 Apium petræum seu montanum album... Mountain Stone Parsley. 1857 Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 5 Sison (Stone Parsley). 1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 592 Libanotis... Mountain Stone-Parsley. |