One of the leaf-beds consists of a compressed mass of leaves unaccompanied by any stems, as if they had been blown into a marsh where a species of equisetum grew, of which the remains are plentifully imbedded in clay.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
When the turf or peat has been cut, leaving water less than a yard deep, equisetum limosum grows at once, and is followed by the second class of marsh plants mentioned above.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
Near the river there are also to be found carpets of a uniform green, consisting of a short kind of equisetum, unmixed with any other plants, which forms a "gazon," to which no nobleman's country seat can show a match.
"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II"
A.E. Nordenskieold