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Calabria. It has long been naturalized, and flourishes in 
abundance, on the banks of the small river, which rises in 
the clear and limpid fountain of Cyane, now Ciane, or La 
Pisma, and joins the Anapus, Anapu, a little before it flows 
into the Great Port to the S. W. of Syracuse. To this spot 
the Papyrus, il Papéru, or more vulgarly, Pampéru, or Pap- 
péru, in all probability, was originally introduced either from 
Egypt or Carthage. It is not seen growing spontaneously 
in any other river in Sicily. But Fazelli asserts (de Reb. Sic. 
Decad. i. lib. 8.) that near the city of Palermo, there was 
formerly a marshy place called Papyretum, from the abun- 
dance of this plant. I measured one of the largest heads 
which I gathered in La Pisma, May 31, 1826, and found it 
195 inches in length ; and the number of its umbellulee were 
397. It grows to the height of 22 or 25 feet. Paper is 
sometimes prepared from it, merely as a curiosity, and sold at 
Syracuse. I will now conclude these few notes on the plant, 
which has afforded to mankind such benefits, and which has 
more than any other contributed to the recollection of it, to 
science, to literature, and to the knowledge of past events,— 
in the following words of the ancient Naturalist, —cum 
Chartze usü maximé Humanitas vite constet et Memoria. 
JOHN HOGG. 
Sr. Perer’s COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, 
March 21, 1828. 
TABLE OF THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY, MENTIONED IN 
THE FOREGOING LIST. 
5. Delphinium peregrinum 
Crass I. DICOTYLEDONES. ç zu e 
 Jianunculacee. 7. D. pubescens. 
l. Atragene cirrhosa Papavaracee. 
2. Anemone coronaria 8. Hypecoum procumbens. 
9. A. hortensis Crucifere. 
^. Ranunculus muricatus 9. Brassica Cretica. 
