EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 87 
P., XVI, 38, RR FE Kuan tung hua. Described as a 
plant which flowers in the twelfth month while the ground 
is still frozen. Its yellow flowers shoot forth from the roots,, 
and are used in medicine. 
The plant represented under the above name in CA., ».4 F 
44, resembles Tussilago farfara, L. The Kiu huang, XLVI, 
5, figures only the leaves. Loureiro, Flora cochin., 614, 
Tussilago farfara, Chinese koan tum hoa, TATARINOY, Catal. 
med. sin, 27, K*uan tung hoa, Flores Farfare. The Index 
Flore sin., however, does not mention this plant; nor has 
it been gathered in Japan. There is in Japan a plant 
allied to it, the Petasites japonicus, Miq., and to this the 
Chinese name Se 4 7 is applied there. See So moku, 
mii, 25, 26. This plant is also known from Central 
China. See also Henry, Chinese Names of Plants, 124. 
£., 119, family BR “>, good figure, but ‘Only radical leaves of 
a Senecionidea. 
S., III, 21, has two figures, one probably Gerbera Anandria, Sch. 
Bip., the other a widely separated plant. 
C., 650. A., XV, 159. Tussilago Farfara, L., and Pelasites 
Japonicus, Miq., (in Japan). oes 
A., XV, 160, Anandria Bellidiastrum, D. ic ( = Gerbera An), 
Fap. + 1593, Petasites jap., Mig. 
161. —Hp ji Chung k*ui ; i] Kiin. 
_ The drawing in the Rh ya represents a mushroom. a 
~ Kuo P‘o:—Same as fh YB 77 sin. It resembles the #3 
Kai. In Kiang tung it is called £ a Tu iin or Ha Bf 
oe Kui chu, 
. £., 52, family Ean Three figures and 45 names. 
All Fungi known to the Chinese are grouped under the three 
headings 3 Z., 48-51, BY 52, and KF also 5 ‘There are 
66, 45 and 26 names enumerated, total 137. # tye 
 :162.—)Jv % FR. The smaller kind is called hain. lio 
Hine Pina explains that the large kind [161] is called 
; ~~ ies whilst the moat one ieahs is ae es iin. The 
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