calamus

In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011

The scummy pond sleeps lazily, Clad thick with lilies, and the bee Reels boisterous as a Bassarid Above the bloated green frog hid In lush wan calamus and grass, Beside the water's stagnant glass.

From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein

At their bases these rudimentary barbs meet to form the calamus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

The rattan is the stem of a creeping prickly palm, the scientific name of which is the calamus.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett

These were calamus, bloodroot, snakeroot, slippery elm, tansy, and scores that I do not remember the names of.

From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

In providing copy for a work of six volumes, each of about 1000 pages, it was but natural that lapsus calami should occur from time to time.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

I think this must have been a lapsus calami on Voltaire's part, because it is unlikely that he would have invented such a story.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale

The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

It can, therefore, have been a mere lapsus calami on her part, as this eminently sensible woman was incapable of the silly weakness of concealing her age.

From Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern