sugar-grass

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an Australian grass, Erianthus fulvus, Kunth., N.O. Gramineae.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 106:

«The `Sugar Grass' of colonists, so called on account of itssweetness; it is highly productive, and praised bystockowners. Cattle eat it close down, and therefore it is indanger of extermination, but it is readily raised from seed.»

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