water-herbage

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I had taken to the latter as being "the only things not yet collected by someone or other in the house;" and I became so infatuated in the pursuit that I used to get up at four o'clock in the morning to search the damp places and water-herbage by the river, it being emphatically "the early bird who catches" snails.

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872
I had taken to the latter as being "the only things not yet collected by somebody or other in the house;" and I became so infatuated in the pursuit that I used to get up at four o'clock in the morning to search the damp places and water-herbage by the river, it being emphatically "the early bird who catches" snails.

Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863