The most common plants on the drier places were Aira alpina and Poa alpina; on the more low-lying places there grew glyceria, Pedicularis, and Ledum palustre; everywhere we found Petasites frigida and a species of Salix.
"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II"
A.E. Nordenskieold
Of course, Mesembrius was not only blind, but deaf, when glyceria was mentioned in his presence; he himself never permitted her name to cross his lips.
"A Christian But a Roman"
Mór Jókai
When the name "glyceria" reached him, he struck his heels into his horse's flanks, and as though he felt the scourge of the Furies upon him, dashed wildly into the courtyard of the Villa Mesembrius.
"A Christian But a Roman"
Mór Jókai