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Fool's Parsley
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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In botany, the popular name for Aethusa Cynapium, a member of the family Umbelliferae, and a common weed in cultivated ground. It is an annual herb, with a fusiform root and a smooth hollow branched stem 1 to 2 ft. high, with much divided (ternately pinnate) smooth leaves and small compound umbels of small irregular white flowers. The plant has a nauseous smell, and,like other members of the order (e.g. hemlock, water-dropwort), is poisonous.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Fool's Parsley'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/fools-parsley.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Fool's Parsley'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/fools-parsley.html. 1910.
