arrow-grass

The vampire tried to pull away, but the arrow-grass hair had caught his head, and the tentacle skirt had grabbed his legs.

Yon Ill Wind

Of the three families, the first, _Juncagineæ_, includes a few inconspicuous plants with grass-like or rush-like leaves, and small, greenish or yellowish flowers (_e. g._ arrow-grass, _Triglochin_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses

The arrows, five or six feet long, are made from the flower-stalk of the arrow-grass (_Gynerium_), the head pointed with the flinty chonta and tipped with bone, often anointed with poison.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America

Here and there the river is bordered with low alluvial deposits covered with feathery-topped arrow-grass and amphibious vegetation; but generally the banks are about ten feet high and magnificently wooded; they are abrupt, and land-slides are frequent.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America

Conspicuous, too, is the taxi, with brown buds and white flowers; while the margin of the water is thickly fringed by a belt of arrow-grass, or _frexes_ -- so called by the Portuguese -- six feet in height.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

The shaft is made of the flower-stalk of the arrow-grass.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America