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In reading a short story by Kipling, "Actions and Reactions" I encountered the word "kelk". Diligent search was unavailing. Sounds like briar or bramble, something that can snag clothing. " They walked toward it through an all abandoned land. Here they found the ghost of a patch of lucerne that had refused to die: there a harsh fallow surrendered to yard-high thistles; and here a breadth of rampant kelk feigning to be lawful crop. In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat. At the bottom of the valley a little brook had undermined its footbridge, and frothed in the wreckage. But there stood great woods on the slopes beyond--old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ruined house."
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I do think that "common foetid parsley" has more of a ring to it, however ...
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I guess this must what I would call Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
Googling for Foetid Parsley, with various spellings, only brought up that one website, so I'm not convinced that the REV. M. C. F. MORRIS, B.C.L., M.A., Vicar of Newton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, 1892, had the name quite right.
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