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

"This," she explained, "is some calamus root that I raised and dried myself, and I hope it comes in handy whenever you ladies need something for the indigestion."

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

Away! gold of Arabia, Myrrh, calamus, and cassia, Far better I discover!

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt

The odours of calamus and myrrh and camphor from strange continents mingled with the faint perfume of the dried rose leaves and the scent-bags of English lavender.

From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe

Originally the calamus grew in a limited area and was difficult to obtain.

From Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw

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

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

The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

In providing copy for a work of six volumes, each of about 1000 pages, it was but natural that lapsus calami should occur from time to time.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

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