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Darnel

the popular name for Lolium tenulentum, which some suppose DARTER to be the Infelix lolium of Vergil and the zizania or tares of Scripture. It was believed by the ancients to be poisonous and narcotic. It is common in cornfields. It has culms one to two feet high, the spike being like that of Triticum repens, the wheat-grass or couch-grass.

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