CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

PURPLE HEDGE PARSLEY

Description. This grows from a long slender root that is hung with many straggling fibres. The leaves are large and beautiful, of a fine green, and divided, in the pinnated manner, into numerous short, obtuse segments. The stalk is firm, upright, and sometimes is found five feet high; it is striated, a little hairy, as are also the leaves, and is divided into several ramifications towards the top, whereon grow the flowers upon umbels, which are small and purple. The seeds are large, flat, and broad, brown or reddish in the middle, and whitish at the edges.

Place. We have it in dry pastures, and under hedges, but no where common.

Time. It flowers in July.