bottom-grass

Then he plunged his head down again, threw his rump above water, and dived completely below the surface, coming up with tufts of bottom-grass in his mouth.

XI. A Curious Experience 1916

At dark we pitch our camp in a grassy hollow, where the horses are made happy with heaps of pulled bottom-grass.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Shall his pursuits and desires, the reflections of his inward life, be like the reflected image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim water-weeds and oozy bottom-grass that are yet better than itself and more noble, in as far as substances that appear as shadows are preferable to shadows mistaken for substance?

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803