UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 303 



Means of control 



Grub out and destroy the plants, allowing no seeds to ripen and 

 fall into the soil to perpetuate so deadly a menace to the safety of 

 the children and the domestic animals of the neighborhood. Or 

 the plant is easily pulled, roots and all, in the spring when the 

 ground is soft and the young shoots first appear. 



FOOL'S PARSLEY 



&thiisa Cynapium, L. 



Other English names: False Parsley, Dog's Parsley, Dog Poison, 

 Fool's Cicely. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : June to August. 



Seed-time: August to October. 



Range: Nova Scotia to Virginia, west- 

 ward to the Mississippi River. 



Habitat: Fields and waste places. 



Fool's Parsley is acridly poisonous ; 

 its Greek name means "to burn," which 

 indicates the sort of agony that its 

 victims feel. 



Root spindle-shaped like a radish, 

 three to six inches long. Stem one to 

 two feet tall, slender, smooth, branching 

 by forking. Leaves very dark green, 

 smooth, shining, twice or thrice ternately 

 divided, the segments again finely cleft ; 

 they look very like those of the true 

 Parsley, but, when crushed, have a dis- 

 agreeable, fetid odor; the upper ones 

 are nearly sessile, the short petioles 

 much dilated at the base. Flowers 

 white, unpleasantly scented, the large 

 umbel without an involucre, but the 

 umbellets having involucels of long, 

 narrow, downward-turned bracts. The FIG. 211. Fool's Parsley 

 flowers of true parsley are yellow. (^Ethusa Cynapium). xj. 



