NOTES ON WORKS CONSULTED. 7 
for the recovery of ancient books, and presented Mao’s text 
and the work of Hene at the court of the Emperor Kine. 
LeeeE says probably in B.C. 129, but Kine 11 reigned B.C. 
156-140. Cxane himself published his explanation of the 
Shi 3%; JE FF ff in 29 chapters, which still remains. 
The Shi king is especially rich in Chinese names of plants, 
cultivated economic plants and wild-growing herbs and trees. 
Conructus said [ Analects, p. 187] that from the Shi we 
become extensively acquainted with the names of birds, 
beasts and plants. The names of a number of cultivated and 
wild plants appear in the first of the Odes of Pin, entitled 
4A Ts‘i yie, which is of high antiquity. It is accepted 
by the famous Duke of Chou [12th century B.C.) as a 
description of the life in Pin in the olden days [comp. 
Shi king, 226]. @ or RS Pin was a small principality in 
Southern Shensi, Pin chou fu, where the chiefs of Chou 
dwelt for nearly five centuries [ B,C. 1796-1325]. 
Ancient names for grains are mentioned in the Ode 4B & 
Sheng min, p. 465, which is devoted to the legend of fy # 
_ Hou rst, to whom the princes of Chou traced their lineage 
[comp. Botan. sin., I, 76], and likewise in the Ode Pi kung, 
praising Hov tsi (Shi king, 620]. 
In the second half of the third century of our era fe 
Lu kt, a distinguished functionary in the kingdom of & Wu 
[south of the Yang tsz‘], wrote a commentary in two- books 
on the herbs, trees, birds, beasts, insects and fishes mentioned 
in Mao’s version of the Shi king, % 3 WAR BRK Sh 
A BE Mao shi ts‘ao mu niao shou ch*ung yi shu. It is found 
- in the collection of books of the Han, Wei, ete., periods 
[ Botan. sin., 1,135]. ‘Lecce states that the original work was 
lost, and that that now current was compiled, it is not known 
when or by whom, mainly from K‘one Yine-ra, who in his 
commentaries on the Shi king quotes the corresponding 
