apium

[In Sp. apio; Ital. appio; Lat. apium = parsley (?) or wild celery (?); Gr. ἄπιον (αρίσι) = (1) a pear, (2) parsley: ap, ab, or av in various languages = water, as Punjaub = the five waters.) Celery. A genus of plants, the typical one of the order Apiaceæ, or Umbellifers. It contains one British species, the A. graveolens, Smallage, or Wild Celery, IMG:content-0613.jpg:[blocks in formation] which grows in marshy places, especially near the sea. It is the original of the garden celery. [CELERY.] A. pet rose linum is the well-known_parsley. [PARSLEY.]