NOTES ON WORKS CONSULTED. 15 
B.C. 314]. It was translated into French, in 1870 by the 
Marquis p’Hervey px St. Denys. About 30 names of plants 
appear in the Li sao, and many of them refer to fabulous trees 
and herbaceous plants. 
The #& 4 & Chung chi shu, a treatise on husbandry by 
i BF & Fan Suenc-cur. Second half of the first century 
B.C. [See Botan. sin., I, p. 76]. 
The Fe Fang yen, a comparative vocabulary of sy- 
nonyms used in the various feudal states of ancient China, 
by #4 Mé Yana Hivune [B.C. 53-A.D. 18]. He is also styled 
Ra BH Yana cat-K1. [Comp. Botan. sin., I, No. 106.] 
The # A Shuo wen is an ancient dictionary of the Chinese 
language, composed by 7 { Hi Suen at the close of the 
first century of our era. In it the matter is found arranged 
_ according to the radical part of the character, under the head 
of 540 radicals. It contains about 10,000 characters, all 
written in the Lesser Seal. The pronunciation is vaguely 
_ given, and also concise remarks on the meaning. About 760 
of these characters refer to plants, but the explanations 
furnished with respect to the names are for the most part 
unsatisfactory, eg. Hi %, 7X %, name of a plant, of a tree, 
etc., or the name is defined by a synonym, 
The B H€ Kuang ya, called also $f HE Po ya, a kind of 
vocabulary or dictionary published in the third century 
[see Botan. sin., No, 383]. It professes to be an enlargement 
of the Rh ya. The section on plants contains nothing but 
names and synonyms, without any explanation. 
Among the numerous Chinese works on Botany there are 
four which the reader will find frequently quoted in my 
Notes on the classical plants, and which haye already been 
treated of at length in the first part of my Botanicon sinicum. 
