Pipeweed

The ſtories told by one and another of theſe adventurers, had made a deep impreſſion on the mind of VValter Pipevveed, one of John [Bull]'s domeſtics, a fellovv of a roving and projecting diſpoſition, and vvho had learned the art of ſurveying.

He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. 'We have heaps of it, […] It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt.'

I took the pipe and sniffed. Pipeweed had the aroma of the finest Moroccan Mauve. I inhaled. It was strong stuff.

Over the dimming fire, the old man tossed him a small box, carved with similar markings. Inside, Amarden found two pouches, one containing ordinary pipeweed. The other pouch was gray, ahd a silver string to draw it shut, and contained a fine silvery substance. […] "What is this?" / "Pipeweed, of course!" he said from between teeth clenching his pipe. / "It looks like silver dust."

Equisetaceæ rivalled "the mast of some great ammiral," in localities where they dwarfed representatives, the horse-tail and pipe-weed of our bogs, stand only a few inches high.

Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; ſo called becauſe its ſtalk is hollovv.

U. diaphana. Transparent Ulva—Pipe-weed. Occasionally cast up on the beach at Seaton. Some authors call this substance, Alcyonium gelatinosum, and others Alcyonium diaphanum. It has much the appearance of an animal production.

The larva [of Gyrinus] is not well known, and not often met with by collectors. I have taken examples in the River Ant, not far from North Walsham. […] Both were found in pipe-weed (Entermorpha intestinalis), and it may be that this is the usual habitat.

Alcyonium, ſeu Fucus nodoſus & ſpongioſus. […] Sea ragged Staff, called by the Fiſhermen Pipe-vveed, or Pudding-vveed. This irregular-ſhaped yellovv ſizy Subſtance, […] is found adhering to moſt kinds of marine Subſtances, on the Coaſt of Kent, near the Iſland of Sheppey particularly; ſo that it frequently becomes troubleſome to the Fiſhermen, by often clogging their Nets. […] This Alcyonium deſerves a more critical Enquiry. It appears at preſent to me, to be the Spavvn of ſome numerous Species of Shell-fiſh.