There were others resembling parsley, and having the taste of water-Cresses with white turnip-like roots.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Every country housewife should learn to garnish dishes with capers, a border of water-Cresses, plain parsley, or vegetables cut into fancy forms.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
He loved his horses and his herds, The smell of the earth, and the song of birds, His well-filled barns, his brook with its water-Cresses.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow