sweet rushn.
1. The lemon-grass or camel's hay, Andropogon Schœnanthus; also the allied species A. laniger.
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squinant1548
camel's-hay1597
camel's-meat1598
sweet rush1598
schoenanth1633
rusa1783
lemon-grass1837
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squinanth, cammels meate, or sweet rush, which is very medicinable.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 101 The medicinable vertues of the sweet Rush called Squinanth... Squinanth is round, of an hote and fiery taste.
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl.
2. The sweet flag, Acorus Calamus.
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beeworteOE
sweet calamusa1398
acorus?a1425
acorum1601
sweet rush1607
sweet cane1611
sweet smelling flag1640
sweet flag1790
myrtle flag1796
myrtle grass1796
flag-root1851
myrtle sedge1857
sweet sedge1857
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 116 They loue the lakes & strong streames, breaking the floods to come by fresh pasture, as sweet rushes and Bul-rushes.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xviii. 258 Calamus Aromaticus or Sweet Rush.
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