reed-grass
[reed n.1]
1. A name given to various reed-like grasses, as the bur-reed, bent, reed bent-grass, etc.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. lv. 515 Rede grasse hath long narrow leaues..with a sharpe crest or backe, raysed vp. 1585 Higins tr. Junius' Nomencl. 120 Butomum,..reedgrasse, or oxbane. 1611 Cotgr., Roseau des estangs, reed-grasse, the Burre Reed. 1743 James Med. Dict. s.v. Arundo, The Gramen Arundinaceum, Reed Grass, enumerated amongst the Reeds by Dale, agrees in Virtues with the common Reed. 1777 Lightfoot Fl. Scot. I. 107 Arundo arenaria, Sea Reed Grass. 1813 H. Davies Welsh Botanol. i. 12 Arundo colorata, Canary Reed-grass. |
2. The name of various American grasses.
salt reed-grass, a tall stout grass (Spartina polystachya) of the Atlantic coast. small reed-grass, a species of Calamagrostis. sweet reed-grass or wood reed-grass, the tall sweet-scented grasses Cinna arundinacea or C. pendula.
| 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 341 The Mountain Reed-Grass. I found this curious little plant at Cold Spring. 1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 601 Calamagrostis canadensis, Reed Grass, Blue-joint. |