Arrow Grass

The vampire tried to pull away, but the arrow-grass hair had caught his head, and the tentacle skirt had grabbed his legs. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1996)

Of the three families, the first, _Juncagineæ_, includes a few inconspicuous plants with grass-like or rush-like leaves, and small, greenish or yellowish flowers (_e. g._ arrow-grass, _Triglochin_). ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The arrows, five or six feet long, are made from the flower-stalk of the arrow-grass (_Gynerium_), the head pointed with the flinty chonta and tipped with bone, often anointed with poison. ❋ James Orton (1853)

Here and there the river is bordered with low alluvial deposits covered with feathery-topped arrow-grass and amphibious vegetation; but generally the banks are about ten feet high and magnificently wooded; they are abrupt, and land-slides are frequent. ❋ James Orton (1853)

Conspicuous, too, is the taxi, with brown buds and white flowers; while the margin of the water is thickly fringed by a belt of arrow-grass, or _frexes_ -- so called by the Portuguese -- six feet in height. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The shaft is made of the flower-stalk of the arrow-grass. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)