PARSLEY FAMILY 
- ( Umbeliferce) 
(A) Water Parsnip (Sium cicutcefolium) is a stout 
branching herb growing in shallow >vater. The rather 
weak stem is from 2 to 6 feet high. The alternating, 
compound leaves are very variable, but usually of from 
seven to fifteen, sharply-toothed, linear or lance-shaped 
leaflets. Flat, dome-shaped clusters, or umbels, of tiny 
white flowers terminate the upper branches. This spe¬ 
cies is very abundant throughout., the country. 
(B) Wild Carrot; Bird’s Nest; Queen Anne’s Lace 
{Daucus Carota) (European). While to flower lovers, 
this may appear to be the most beautiful,species of the 
family, it is the most heartily detested- weed with which 
the farmer has to contend. It is very prolific, and each 
individual plant strikes its roots deep into the ground,- 
as though determined to defy extermination. The fully, 
opened flower clusters have an exquisite, lace-like ap¬ 
pearance, while those half-opened are hollowed sugges¬ 
tively like 1 a bird’s nest; in the center of the cluster, i. c 
a tiny purple floret, all the others Being white. 
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