cockle —
“Sow'd,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3.
379
;
“The cockle of rebellion,”
CORIOLANUS, iii. 1. 70.
Nares says that Shakespeare means
“the Agrostemma githago of
Linnæus, a weed often troublesome in corn-fields”
(Gloss.
); Mr. Beisly that he means
“the Lolium temulentum, in
his time called darnel, as well as cockle and cockle-weed”
(Shakspere's Garden,
p. 130)
.