local. The grass Glyceria aquatica.
1607. Camden, Brit., 360. Cum aquæ se in suos alueos receperint, lætissimo gramine & fœno crassiori (Lid vocant) ita luxuriat.
1878. Miller & Skertchly, Fenland, x. 298. [After quoting Camden on Lid] This grass is most likely the Glyceria, formerly Poa aquatica … and is still usually known by the name of ‘White Leed.’ It was once the principal grass of the Wash lands.
