PAPYRUS. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx tiled ; scales egg-shaped. 
Corolla, none. 
Seed single, naked, three-cornered. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cyperus Papyrus. C. culmo triquetro nudo, umbella involucris 
longiore, involucellis triphyllis setaceis 
longioribus, spiculis ternis. Linn, Spec. 
Plant, Willd. 1. p. 288. no. 73. 
Stalk naked and triangular j umbel longer 
than the involucrum j partial involucre 
three-leaved and bristle-shaped j spiculae 
ternate. 
C. enodis nudus, culmis e vaginis brevibus 
prodeuntibus, spicis tenuioribus. Scheuch, 
Gram. 38 7. t. 8. f. 14. 
C. niloticus vel syriacus papyraceus. Moris, 
Hist. 3. p. 239- f. 8. t. 11. f. 41. 
Papyrus. . . . Bruce's Travels, vol. 7 . p. Ilf. 8vo. ed. 
Althouh the papyrus has long ceased to be useful, 
it still deserves to be noticed, since it was from this 
plant that the antients manufactured their paper. 
