Ponds and streams have an unpleasant habit of drying up in summer, and often the Pickerel Weed looks as brown as a bullrush where it is stranded in the baked mud in August.
"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing"
Neltje Blanchan et al
At other times, they were placed in the ground a little apart from one another, the interstices being filled with branches and the bark of trees interwoven, and with bullrush mats, to make the fortification spear-and-arrow proof.
"Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century"
Henry Chandlee Forman
At war with himself but trying to reassure that same self the plodding sound of approaching hooves was only dried, bullrush stems hitting against his head.
"Coming to Grips with White Knuckles"
Paul Cameron Brown