rock-weed

Sea-weeds, kelp, rock-weed, and the like, where they can be obtained, are the best fertilizers; but, where these are not accessible, a slight application of salt will be beneficial.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

I came upon one very suddenly, as the wave was swelling above it, and the rock-weed afloat on its sunken head looked, for the instant, like the hair of a drowning person.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

There I sat a full hour, watching the star-fish, and the crabs scrambling about among the loose strands of the olive-green and deep purple rock-weed, which looked almost black in the shadow, while here and there, as it waved to and fro with the sea, disclosing patches of yellow sand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

The sea was abundantly stored with rock-weed and yellow flowers.

Colonial Children 1902

It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most, rock-weed, kelp, and sea-weed, as he named them, which he carted to his barn-yard; and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.

Cape Cod 1865

"There hasn't been any caught before these for a month, and then only a few tinkers," added Leopold, as he removed the wet rock-weed with which he had covered the fish to protect them from the sun.

The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Oliver Optic 1859

Next they are smit with wonder at the black shells of a wagon-load of live lobsters packed in rock-weed for the country-market.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

It was a small collection of dwellings that seemed to have been cast up by the sea with the rock-weed and marine plants that it vomits after a storm, or to have come ashore among the pipe-staves and other lumber which had been washed from the deck of an Eastern schooner.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

It was a small collection of dwellings that seemed to have been cast up by the sea, with the rock-weed and marine plants that it vomits after a storm, or to have come ashore among the pipe-staves and other lumber, which had been washed from the deck of an Eastern schooner.

The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Her hanging locks are wreathed with rock-weed wild;

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806