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Of the Hiflorie of Plants . 



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OpDarneU. 



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I Lolium album . 



2 Lolium rubrum 



Red Darnell. 



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«f[ TheDefcription. 



1 A Mong the hurtfull weeds Darnell is the firft . It bringeth forth leaues or ftalkes like 

 Jr\ thofe of wheat or barly,yet rougher,with a long eare made vp of many little ones,eue- 



rie particular one whereof containcth two or three grains lefter than thofe of Wheat, 

 fcarcely any chaifie huske to couer them with ; by reafon whereof they arc cafily fhaken out and 

 fcattered abroad. 



2 Red Darnell is likewife an vnprofi table corne or grafle,hauing leaues like barly. The joints 

 of the ftraw or ftalke are fometimes ofa reddifh colour,bearing at the top a fmall and tender care, 

 flat^and much in forme refembling the former. 



fl The Place, 



They grow in fields among wheat and barley,of the corrupt and bad feed,as Galen faith,efpeci- 



ally in a moift and dankifti foil 



^[ The Time. 



They Ipringand flour i(h with the corne,and in Auguft the feed is ripe, 



«p* 7 he N 'awes. 







1 Darnell is called in Greeke, »e* : in the Arabian tongue, Zizania.and Sceylen : in French,* 

 ray : in Italian,^/,* . j n Dutch, BOitCfc X in Englifh,Darnell : of fome, Iuray and Rayc : and 01 

 fome of the Lat'mcs,Triticumtemulentum. 



2 Red Darnell is called in Greeke, »-:»«,-, or p^mx,becauCc of the crimfon colour : in Lati^' 



Lolium rubrttm^zvA Lolium murinum : of fome^Hordeum murinum^vA Trtticummunnum t in £> ut 



^Upfe COjcn : in EngliOi,Red Darnell,or great Darnell grafTe. 



*[ The Temperature. s 



Darnell is hot in the third degree,and dry in the fecond. Red Darnell drieth without (harpi* > 



as Galen faith. 





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