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.
