Of Cockle / or fielde Nigella. Chap. xi.
❧ The Description.
COckle or fielde Nigelweede, hath straight slender hearie stemmes, the leaues be also long, narrow, hearie, & grayish. The floures be of a browne purple colour, changing towardes red, diuided into fiue small leaues, not much varying from the proportion of the wilde Campions, after the which there groweth rounde bolleyns or cups, wherein is cōteyned plenty of seede (of a broune or russet colour.)
❀ The Place.
These floures grow in the fieldes, amongst the Wheate, Rye, and Barley.
❀ The Tyme.
It floureth in May, Iune, and Iuly.
❀ The Names.
This floure is now called amongst the lear∣ned mē Githago, or Nigellastrum, or Pseudolan∣thium, of some flos Micancalus, as Ruellius wri∣teth: in English field Nigella or Cockle: in high Douch Raden, Groszraden, and Kornrosz: in Brabant Corenroosen, and Negelbloemen: in French Nielle.
❀ The Temperament and Vertues.
[ A] The vertues, & temperament of this herbe, are not yet knowē bicause it is not in vse, sauing of certayne fonde people, whiche do vse it in the steede of Yuray or Darnell, or for the right Nigella, to the great daunger and perill of the sicke people.