calamus

In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011

Herophilos has named after him the torcular herophili, and the name he gave the curious appearance in the floor of the fourth ventricle--the calamus scriptorius--is still retained.

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh

“Bouillon’s war”: the crusade of Godfrey de Bouillon.—Act ii., “sweet cane”: Acorus calamus.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

Here also grew camphor, with spikenard, and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with all its trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all chief spices.

From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

I done laid in some calamus root, en I ain’t gwineter take no skuse,’ sez Brer Fox, sezee.”

From Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader by Louise Manly

I think this must have been a lapsus calami on Voltaire's part, because it is unlikely that he would have invented such a story.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale

He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

It can, therefore, have been a mere lapsus calami on her part, as this eminently sensible woman was incapable of the silly weakness of concealing her age.

From Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

This should be Fort Clark, not Fort Leavenworth—an evident lapsus calami.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian