spear grass

Historical Examples of spear grass

• If you get scratched up by spear-grass and thorns and then step into some swamp-pool it's all off.

  The Blind Lion of the Congo

  Elliott Whitney

• The pupa state is spent, in an earthen chamber, amongst the roots of the spear-grass, and the moth emerges during the summer.

  An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology

  G. V. Hudson

• The larva feeds on the spear-grass (Aciphylla squarrosa), an abundant plant on the coast hills near Wellington.

  An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology

  G. V. Hudson

• During our stay the island was fired, in order to remove the "spear-grass," which is so destructive to cattle.

  Cruise of the 'Alert'

  R. W. Coppinger

• It was the stalks, above the upper joint, of spear-grass and redtop grass growing so profusely in Weathersfield.

  Home Life in Colonial Days

  Alice Morse Earle