Cane-brake (Ludolfia (Arundinaria) macrospirma), a colossal reed, nearly allied to the bamboo, which reaches a height of 30 or 40 feet, and forms dense swamp-jungles (sometimes of wide area) in marshy places, and along the banks of the Red River, the Arkansas, and the Mississippi, and their tributaries.
Cane-brake
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 708
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