macrosperma

Updated: May 11, 2025

These hollow upright trees, covered with innumerable marine annelids, reminded me of a "cane-brake," as it is commonly called, consisting of tall reeds, Arundinaria macrosperma, which I saw in 1846, at the Balize, or extremity of the delta of the Mississippi.

Sir Charles Lyell - The Student's Elements of Geology