marram-grass

I took my turn with the breakers this morning and walked to Wangeroog, whose village I found half lost in sand drifts, which are planted with tufts of marram-grass in mathematical rows, to give stability and prevent a catastrophe like that at Pompeii.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

A boat-house, she said, had been completely buried; and pointed out of the window to the rafters of it, half hidden by marram-grass.

Try Anything Twice 1938