vitti

Again we were among mountains, passing green lawns, and marshes overgrown with vitti-vert, (which is used for thatching,) fern, marsh mallows, waving bamboos, and wild tobacco.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various

_vitti-vert_, is occasionally preferred for the lines of division; this is cut twice or thrice in the year to be used as thatch, for which it is well adapted.

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794