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Merlin's grass
The aquatic plant Isoetes lacustris or quill-wort.
[17..S. Brewer's Bot. Journ. Wales in 1726 (MS.) in Britten & Holland Plant-n., The fish are larger there [at Llyn Ogwen, Carnarvonshire] than in any of the other lakes, which they attribute to the eating of [this plant], which they call Gwair Merllyns; gwair is hay, and Merllyn was a Welsh prophet. ]1837G. W. Francis Analysis Brit. Ferns 56 Isoetes lacustris. European Quillwort. Merlin's Grass. |