pepper-grass

Rows of hyssop, rue, saffron, and sage, and beds of lettuce, pepper-grass, and cives, all had their place in this old-fashioned garden.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

Under the glass were growing lettuce, radishes, and pepper-grass, all looking as bright and fresh and green and well contented as if they, like the man for whose benefit they grew, cared little where they sprouted, so only they grew.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Tom-budha was green corn and fresh meat cooked together and seasoned wid tongue or pepper-grass.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

Among other plants I noticed the mustard, and an immense quantity of the common pepper-grass of our gardens.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

"Better put a bit of pepper-grass for the Imp," Tracy suggested, as the girls went from place to place up and down the long table.

The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

Poisoned bunches of clover or weeds have been thoroughly tested, even by the wagon-load, over large areas, and nearly all have reported them very effective; lamb's quarters (pigweed), pepper-grass, and mullein are among the weeds especially attractive to cutworms.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

But then in every joy patch some weeds are bound to shoot up overnight, and I was horrified to look down the rows of purple beet fronds and see what a lot of bold pepper-grass and chickweed were doing in their trenches.

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

They landed on the island and found a few shell-fish, birds, and a species of pepper-grass, but no water.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

Even the pepper-grass nodded and the golden-rod, and careless roosters as they passed _seemed_ to lower their combs to her and to forget themselves, just for a minute.

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Then she got better, but it was not until she had taken a nip at the pepper-grass that she was sufficiently warmed up to hold up her head and think.

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886