![]() ![]() ![]() The roots are used for firewood and for making Produce a soft, hair-like tuft as a head. The stalks ( πάπυροι) areĪbout four cubits (six feet) in height, and are of triangular shape. Rising somewhat above the soil, sends forth slenĭer shoots into the mud. Root as thick as a man's arm and of ten cubits (fifteen feet) or more in length. Papyrus as growing along the Nile in water of about two cubits (three feet) in depth, with a Successor of Aristotle in charge of the Lyceum, in his Historia Plantarum The most valuable description given by ancient writers is that of Theophrastus, the Other minor differences are also noticeable. Growing much higher than that of the latter. Species differ from each other mainly in the length of the stalk-that of the former ![]() Presence there was originally due to transplanting and assiduous cultivation. What was anciently believed to be its home, it is probable that its 92, 96) and Strabo (799įoll.) speak of papyrus as belonging to lower Egypt. This is the descendant of the old Egyptian papyrus which wasĬultivated in antiquity in the delta of the Nile. One, theĬyperus Syriacus, mentioned by Theophrastus as growing with the sweet-scentedĬalamus on the borders of a Syrian lake, was transplanted to Sicily by the Arabs in the tenthĬentury, and is found at the present time in various parts of that island. There are two species of the papyrus plant ( Cyperus Papyrus, cf. In antiquity as providing material for writing, is obtained from the study of existing plantsīelieved to belong to the same genus, and also from the statements of ancient writers. Information as to the papyrus reed, celebrated ![]()
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