1. The lemon-grass or camel’s hay, Andropogon Schœnanthus; also the allied species A. laniger.
1598, 1601. [see SQUINANT].
1874. Treas. Bot., Suppl.
2. The sweet flag, Acorus Calamus.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 116. Roes … loue the lakes and strong streames, breaking the floods to come by fresh pasture, as sweet rushes and Bul-rushes.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 325.
1785. Martyn, Lett. Bot., xviii. (1794), 251. Calamus Aromaticus or Sweet Rush.
