Bulrush

The Reed Mace, or Cat's-tail, is often incorrectly called Bulrush, though it is a typha (_tuphos_, marsh) plant.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

We are proposing to harvest in proper stewardship the Cattail (flower of the Bulrush plant) throughout the Gulf of Mexico and around the world to serve as the perfect natural solution to oil spills.

Michael Vazquez: On The Proposed Use of Cattail Fluff in the Cleaning Up of British Petroleum's Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Lakes, Rivers 2010

We are proposing to harvest in proper stewardship the Cattail (flower of the Bulrush plant) throughout the Gulf of Mexico and around the world to serve as the perfect natural solution to oil spills.

Michael Vazquez: On The Proposed Use of Cattail Fluff in the Cleaning Up of British Petroleum's Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Lakes, Rivers 2010

Bulrush millet may be intercropped with maize but in different lines.

Chapter 7 1999

In the Fourth Place you very often hang your Head like a Bulrush.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 1963

Bulrush millet, another native crop, was ill suited to Aaron's well-drained fields.

Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang

And when as the mountaines and hilles were beautifull, and the northeast winds had left of to make barraine with the sharpnesse of their blasts, the tender sprigs to disquiet the moouing reedes, the fenny Bulrush, and weake Cyprus, to torment the foulding Vines, to trouble the bending

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

If you find him, and perceive where he swims under Water, get to stand before him when he _Vents_, (_i.e. _ takes breath) and endeavour to strike him with the spear: If you miss him, follow him with your Hound, and if they are good for _Otter_, they will certainly beat every Tree-root, _Bulrush-Bed_, or _Osier-Bed_, so that he cannot escape you.

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

The Bulrush (_Scirpus lacustris_) is a tall, aquatic plant, which belongs to the Sedge tribe.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Bulrush represents three Heb. words: (1) gome Ex., ii, 3; Is., xviii, 2; xxxv, 7), Cyperus papyrus, is now extinct in Egypt (cf.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913