It stood alone beside a swamp bordered with alder thickets and tall bulrushes.
The hut itself was hidden away in a little clump of swamp willows that grew upon a mound in the midst of a marshy plain, broken here and there by patches of reed and bulrushes.
There were great banks of mud, out of which grew the bulrushes.
Through the bulrush stems John heard their voices and laughter.
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Hugh's team devoted themselves to developing the agronomy of sorghum,bulrushmillet, maize, sesame, safflower, groundnuts and short-staple cotton.
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There have been hundreds of such cases in past centuries, going back to the bulrushes.
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In the marsh, vegetation varies from sedges, rushes, and bluegrass in the meadows to cattails and bulrushes around the marsh pools.
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Blue-winged teal often use heavy growth of bulrushes and cattails as escape cover.
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The reedbeds are dominated by common reed with saltmarsh rush, brackish water crowfoot, sea clubrush and commonbulrushalso common in the various wetland habitats.
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It prefers to live in bulrushes, woodland, and swampy areas.
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The 19000acre km2 refuge is mainly made up of abulrushmarsh, open water, and flooded meadows of sedges, rushes, and grasses.
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One day he met an old woman and asked her about the three bulrushes.
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Some of the more common seeds discovered werebulrush, cattail, and pickleweed, to name a few.
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Plant life common in the lake includes cattails,bulrush, pondweed, and brittle naiad.
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Other common names include cottongrassbulrushand brown woolly sedge.
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Thisbulrushproduces clumps of upright or leaning stems from a fibrous rhizome.
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The body of the egg is covered in laurel leaves and bulrushes that are chased in 14-carat green gold.
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Vegetation such as bladderworts, cattails, bulrushes, and sedges are common around the area, with deciduous trees around the edge of the marshes.
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The shores are sandy and marshy, with thick stands of bulrushes.
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