Sc. Also canna. [a. Gaelic cánach.] The Cotton-grass (Eriophorum).
1803. Mrs. Grant, Poems, 42 (Jam.). The downy cannach of the wat’ry moors.
1804. Grahame, Sabbath, 244. Where the leafless cannachs wave their tufts Of silky white.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., II. xv. Still as the canna’s hoary beard.
1852. D. Moir, Desert. Churchyard. The hoary cannach.
