barley-grass

Mason had come armed with a handful of wild barley-grass, or "crawly", as it was better known among the boys.

Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Florence Coombe

Nor is the envy that you inspire shared only by insects and mankind: even things without soul change their form into yours; -- witness the barley-grass, which turns into a butterfly.

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

a very rich thinly wooded country with herbage like that on old folding ground in spring, we reached unwooded plains; at 9.20 came south-south-east one and a quarter miles across a plain chiefly covered with barley-grass; at 11.20 came south-east by south across plains for five and a quarter miles to the edge of wooded country, and halted till

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough