typha

Another reason for considering lining of tertiaries is heavy infestation with phreatophyte plants (particularly bull-rushes or "typha") in areas of perennially high watertable.

Chapter 13 1995

A related practice which has been developed on a pilot scale, in secondary drains, amounts to organic control of phreatophytes, particularly a variety of bull-rushes (typha) which is particularly troublesome in many area.

Chapter 14 1995

The Reed Mace, or Cat's-tail, is often incorrectly called Bulrush, though it is a typha (_tuphos_, marsh) plant.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Here is a typha ... here an alisma; and by the overpowering perfume, this, I know, is the acacia flower.

Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Eug��ne Brieux 1895

Chinese paper from typha, 545 from corn leaves, 558 from sugar-cane, 573.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

In these swamps we first found the yunjid, or flag (a species of typha) and the sow-thistle of the southern districts; one we came to was a thick tea-tree swamp, extremely picturesque, and producing abundance of these plants, some of which were collected by the men to eat in the evening.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

At evening Dr. Murray proposed that we should walk into the village, which I found to consist of about one hundred lodges of an oblong form, the frame of timber, and the covering mats, made of the leaves of flag, or typha palustris.

Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819

The mothers are careful to collect a sufficient quantity in autumn for winter use; but when through accident their stock fails, they have recourse to the soft down of the typha, or reed mace, the dust of rotten wood, or even feathers, although none of these articles are so cleanly, or so easily changed as the sphagnum.

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 John Franklin 1816

The mothers are careful to collect a sufficient quantity in autumn for winter use; but when through accident their stock fails they have recourse to the soft down of the typha, or reed mace, the dust of rotten wood, or even feathers, although none of these articles are so cleanly or so easily changed as the sphagnum.

The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816

Immediately the discoverer of the bird, the biologist, Luís Fábio Silveira of the University of São Paulo, together with his team, did everything possible to capture as many individuals as they could and release them in areas with similar vegetation, typha (cattails) marshland.

10,000 Birds 2009