lolium

There is a kind of darnel, called lolium murinum, because so counterfeiting corn, that even the mice themselves (experience should make them good tasters) are sometimes deceived therewith.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

From _lolium_ the term Lollard given in reproach to the Waldenses, and the followers of Wickliffe, indicated that they were pernicious weeds choking and destroying the pure wheat of the gospel.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The Lollards are said to have derived their name from a low German word _lollen_, to sing or chant, from their habit of chanting, but their clerical opponents affected to derive it from the Latin _lolium_, as if this sect were as tares among the true wheat of the church.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

Compare _Met_ V 485-86 'lolium tribulique fatigant

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

In the Vulgate it is retained and in popular French Wyclif renders it "darnel or cockle", and curiously enough the name of his followers, the Lollards, has been derived from a Latin equivalent, "lolium."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

It is pretty well determined that the plant in question is "lolium temulentum," or bearded darnel; and the mischievous practice of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

C. illius ut primum senserunt numina terrae, coepit et uberior sulcis fallentibus olim luxuriare seges tandemque legumina plenis uix resonant siliquis; nec praefocata malignum115 messis habet lolium nec inertibus albet auenis.

A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

'The root of the common darnel (_lolium_) or dandelion, with saltpeter, make a very cheap and effective sheep-drench.

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Et tamen, dum hi simulant pietatem, licet ex Ecclesia non sint, numerantur tamen in Ecclesia: sicuti proditores in republica, priusquam detegantur, numerantur et ipsi inter cives, et quemadmodum lolium vel zizania et palea inveniuntur in tritico, ant sicut strumae et tumores inveniuntur in integro corpore, cum revera morbi et deformitates sint verius corporis, quam membra vera.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

The same change takes place in the lolium perenne.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858