deergrass (dergras)

Species of Rhexia, especially the common meadow-beauty, R. Vir ginica. deer-hair, deer's-hair (der'-, dērz'har), Heath club-rush, Scirpus cæspitosus: so called from its tufts of short slender culms, resembling coarse hair. Mo , lichen, and deer - hair are fast covering those stones, to cleanse which had been the busine of his life. Scott , Old Mortality, i.