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.

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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.

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1635.  Swan, Spec. M. (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.

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1744.  J. Wilson, Synopsis Brit. Plants, 68. Sium aromaticum Sison Off.… Bastard Stone-parsley. Ibid., 72. Apium petræum seu montanum album.… Mountain Stone Parsley.

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1857.  Anne Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 5. Sison (Stone Parsley).

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1858.  A. Irvine, Handbk. Brit. Plants, 592. Libanotis.… Mountain Stone-Parsley.

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