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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 
Athisa Cyndpium, 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 frye. 211.— Fool’s Parsley 
flowers of true parsley are yellow. (4#thusa Cynapium). x}. 
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