BOTANIOON SINICUM. 
descriptions of plants from Lv x1’s treatise. But — 
fragments of other texts of it extant quoted by other fy — 
authors and preserved in the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, the * a 
tst ch‘eng, ete., which sometimes differ from the text ~ 
Han Wei ts‘ung shu. Lv x1 treats only of the Mafia 
plants of the Shi (nearly 100). His commentaries on plant 
at least in the mutilated and corrupt form in which the; 
2 ois in 
have survived, are of little value, his descriptions being 
generally extremely vague and sometimes unintelligible 
For instance, when he uses the character “fF tsz‘ we st 
always in doubt whether he means fruit or seed, for he 
applies the same term to both, although the Chinese ~~ 
special character Ff shi to designate the fruit of plants, whil 
the seed is ¥ tsz’. Nevertheless Lu xr has always bees . 
considered as an authority by later Chinese commentators 
on the Shi. 
Regarding the Li Classies, 
Leeg in his clear exposition of 
There are now three 
I may be allowed to follow 
the subject. i ; 
Chinese Classies into which the ter 
Ti-enters, the @§ #8 I li, the  #® Chou Ii and the it i 
Li ki, frequently styled, both by the Chinese themselves | 
by sinologists, the « three Rituals.” The first two are bo 
of the Chou dynasty [B.C, 1122-249], the third, the Li 
_ May contain passages of an 
its present form, it does 
_ Was not completed 
Biel 1 ging the fragments of the ancient wor 
— InBe, 164, the Emperor Way TI ordered the great scholars 
_ ' compile the “ Royal Ordinances,” the fifth book of the Li ki. 
