Darnel Ryegrass (Lolium temulentum)

brewed the intoxicating ryegrass beer, a stout which they drank at their celebrations. As darnel ryegrass preferably grew on the same cropland as wheat or oat and was also known as a yield-damaging species, this hallucinogenic beer sometimes also was an involuntary outgrowth.

In ancient Greece, the plant is also said to have been an ingredient of the kykeon, an oracle drink drunk in the course of the mysteries of Eleusis with the main ingredients grain and water or wine. Shakespeare's King Lear mentions cockle, as well, which Mithridates VI. takes in small doses to immunize against poison.

Lolium temulentum seeds, content: Approx. 100 Darnel Ryegrass seeds