198 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 



The manufactured papyrus was called " papu " 

 by the Egyptians, and hence our word paper. 

 Herodotus calls it byblis, whence the Greek 

 ''book" and our " bible." 



So sedges, in their humble way, have helped to 

 pass the treasures of thought and learning onward 

 through the ages, and as the life, mental and 

 spiritual, is more than meat, they have not been 

 so far behind the grasses in real serviceableness 

 after all. 



