PAPYEXJS ANTIQUOEUM. 



There are several reasons wliicli ia- 

 duce us to think that a page or two 

 may be profltibly devoted to a gossip 

 upon this plant. In the first place it 

 is a most graceful and elegant object, 



far removed from the civilization of 

 the present day. By it, too, one of 

 the prophecies of Scripture has been 

 wonderfully fulfilled. 



Let us speak first of the plant 



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and not half so much cultivated as it 

 deserves to be; and in the second 

 place it has played a by no means in- 

 conspicuous part in the history of the 

 world in the remote ages which are so 



itself. Our sketch will give a very 

 good idea of the appearance which it 

 presents. The wand-like triangular 

 stems support a globular head of 

 finely divided, forking, long, green. 



