ISO PLANTS IN SCRIPTURE 



instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley," the 

 words are intelligible, the sense allowable and significant 

 to this purpose : but whether the word cockle doth 

 stricdy conform unto the original, some doubt may be 

 made from the different translations of it ; for the vulgar 

 renders it spina, Tremellius vitia frugum, and the 

 Geneva yvroye, or darnel. Besides, whether cockle 

 were common in the ancient agriculture of those parts, 

 or what word they used for it, is of great uncertainty. 

 For the elder botanical writers have made no mention 

 thereof, and the moderns have given it the name of 

 bseudomelanthium nigellastrum, lychnoldes segetum, names 

 not known unto antiquity. And, therefore, our trans- 

 lation hath warily set down "noisome weeds" in the 

 margin. 



