Hist. Forms: 1 stánmerce, 4–6 stanmarche, 5–6 ? erron. stammarche, 5 stanmerche, -mers(c)h, 5– stanmarch. [OE. stánmerce, f. stán STONE sb. + merce MARCH sb.1] The umbelliferous plant Smyrnium Olusatrum, also called alexanders and horse-parsley.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 134/36. Petrosilion, stanmerce.
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 10. Alexandria, i. stanmarche.
c. 1450. M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 196. Tak morel . stanmerche . smalache . & malewes.
c. 1450. Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 5. Alexander uel olixatrum … anglice stanmersh.
1516. Grete Herball, viii. (1529), A iv b. De Apio. Smalache or stammarche.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, Suppl., Stanmarch is Alisander.
1665. Lovell, Herbal (ed. 2), 415. Stan march.
1863. Prior, Plant-n.
attrib. c. 1500. Arnolde’s Chron. (1811), 172. Stanmarch seede.
