Cladium

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 273

Cladium, a genus of Cyperaceæ, of which one species, C. Mariscus, is a native of bogs and marshes in Britain, particularly in Cambridgeshire. Its habit is to grow in large masses, but these by no means occur frequently. It is rough-edged, and is consequently hurtful to cattle, but it is used for thatching.

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