corn-cockle

So for instance the pink variety of the Sweet William (_Silene Armeria rosea_), the _Clarkia pulchella carnea_ and the pale variety of the corn-cockle, called usually _Agrostemma Githago nicaeensis_ or even simply _A. nicaeensis_.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

– Most of the weeds which infest our wheat-fields, come from the Old World, – the deceitful chess, the corn-cockle, the Canada-thistle, tares, the voracious red-root, the blue-weed, or bugloss, with others of the same kind.

Rural Hours 1887

Amongst the injurious substances found in linseed and linseed-cake I may mention the seeds of the purging-flax, darnel, spurry, corn-cockle, curcus-beans, and castor-oil beans.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

They say the man grew sick at the mere sight of the corn-cockle, which, though not plentiful on other moors, chanced to abound on this uncultivated tract, and bestowed on it its name; and he shivered as with an ague fit, morning after morning, when the clock struck the hour at which he had left his house.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

So in cornfields we have the scarlet poppies, the purple corn-cockle, the yellow corn-marygold, and the blue cornflower; while on our moors the purple heath and the dwarf gorse make

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Justice with her balance and sword, standing between the sun and moon, with a background of pinks, borage, and corn-cockle: a third is only a cluster of tulips and iris, with two Byzantine peacocks; but the spirits of Penelope and Ariadne reign vivid in all the work -- and the richness of pleasurable fancy is as great still, in these silken labors, as in the marble arches and golden roof of the cathedral of Monreale.

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859