The lake border is blue with sweet-flag that is lovely and the marsh pale gold with cowslips.

All went well until we came to a bog by the roadside, where sweet-flag and cat-tails grew.

John was delighted that the lady should like sweet-flag, and that she was pleased to accept it from him.

Rome a wand of sweet-flag withered to the pith;

Root of wash'd sweet-flag!

Jim, however, had an idea; he said he was going to dig sweet-flag, and see if another carriage wouldn't come along.

He bent to his task and as he worked closer the water he noticed sweet-flag leaves waving two inches tall beneath the surface.

In the long green grass of the meadows shone the yellow star-flowers, and the sweet-flags were blooming along the marshy edges of the ponds.

"It's sweet-flag stalk; would you like some?"

"Oh, I love sassafras, and sweet-flag!"

"Bushel-baskets, spades, and sweet-flag for their mothers," put in Christie again, as David came up the path with the loam he had been digging.