camel-grass

It was overgrown with camel-grass and Acacia (Shittim) trees, mere vegetable mummies; in many places the water had left a mark; and here and there the ground was pitted with mud-flakes, the remains of recently dried pools.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The fertilising fluid is close to the surface, evidenced by a spare growth of Acacia, camel-grass, and at some angles of the bed by the Daum, or Theban palm. 5 I remarked what was technically called

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

What I did see was mostly a stony and sandy wilderness, with outcrops of black basalt; occasionally we passed through a valley containing camel-grass and acacia trees -- mere vegetable mummies -- and surrounded with low hills of gravel and clay.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

Before him was the sun, half curtained in fleecy mist; before him also spread the desert; not the realm of drifting sands, which was farther on, but the region where the herbage began to dwarf; where the surface is strewn with boulders of granite, and grey and brown stones, interspersed with languishing acacias and tufts of camel-grass.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

Here and there a little straggling sage-green tuft of camel-grass sprouted up between the stones.

A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The region of fantastic black hills and orange sand which bordered the river had long been left behind, and everywhere now was the same brown, rolling, gravelly plain, the ground-swell with the shining rounded pebbles upon its surface, and the occasional little sprouts of sage-green camel-grass.

A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894