One Pisul- 

 lum. 



TRIANDRIA. 

 CLASS III. 



THREE STAMINA. 



This Class has three Orders, 



ORDER I. 



PAPYRUS. This plant is usually said to be MO gogr 

 proper to the Nile: it grows, however, not in the 

 bed of the river, but in some small streams issuing out 

 of it, some large stagnant lake or neglected water- 

 course in its neighbourhood, in a depth of water not 

 exceeding three feet. It grows also in Syria, in the 

 shallow recesses of the river Jordan, and at the con- 

 fluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. It is a plant tall 

 and slender, of the rush kind, about ten or twelve feet 

 high. The stem is naked, of a vivid green colour, 

 and triangular in the lower part, at the top it has a 

 bushy head, and at the bottom a few short sedgy 

 leaves/ 



As our knowledge of the different uses to which 

 this plant was applied by the ancients, must be now 

 derived from ancient authors, I will here translate 



f In the British Museum there is a good dried specimen cf 

 the plant. 



