rib-grass

It will stuff itself with rib-grass or other low plants, till it has grown bigger; then it will get a warning from the All-mother to prepare for the great change.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

"The meadows I viewed," says Young, "are among the most extraordinary spectacles the world can afford in respect to the amazing contrast between the soil in its natural and in its watered state, covered richly and luxuriantly with clover, chicory, rib-grass, and _Avena elatior_."

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

For illustration, some years ago I purchased of a dealer in Michigan a small quantity of what was being sold on the market as seed of red clover; this specimen contained 40 per cent of seeds of rib-grass or narrow-leaved plantain.

Seed Dispersal 1878

Her skirt made a buttony noise with the heads of the rib-grass.

There & Back George MacDonald 1864

The lawn, which is extensive, is new grass, and appears to be excellently laid down, the herbage a fine crop of white clover (_trifolium repens_), trefoil, rib-grass (_plantago lanceolata_), and other good plants.

A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Arthur Young 1780

Calm upon such a tormented sea must be the gift of God; and the curate would then sometimes fall asleep himself -- to start awake at the first far-off sound of Helen's dress as it swept a running fire of fairy fog-signals from the half - opened buds of the daisies, and the long heads of the rib-grass, when he would rise and saunter a few paces aside, and she would bend over her brother, to see if he were warm and comfortable.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

Calm upon such a tormented sea must be the gift of God; and the curate would then sometimes fall asleep himself -- to start awake at the first far-off sound of Helen's dress as it swept a running fire of fairy fog-signals from the half - opened buds of the daisies, and the long heads of the rib-grass, when he would rise and saunter a few paces aside, and she would bend over her brother, to see if he were warm and comfortable.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864