EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 91 
163 Tu (Tu); KR HE Fu wang. 
Kuo P‘o:—The tu plant grows on the shore of the sea. 
It resembles the #4 pj Kuan lin. Now the people of #& 
Yiieh in the south use it for making mats, 
The Shuo wen says that lin is a sort of kuan (rush, v. 16), 
Amen. exot., 900, jy Azn, vulgo Sickiso. Juncus sativus, 
prelongus, levis, tenuis, tensus, in agris paludosis in modum 
— orizze colendus, ex quo, irrigationibus et insolatione dealbato, 
texuntur nitidissimi tapetes, quibus duplicatis et gluma 
fartis sternuntur pavimenta, THunpera, Flora jap., 145, 
identifies this with Juncus effusus, L. Stepoup, Syn, pl. 
— weon. Jap., 47, jij, also HE IP) FE Teng sin ts‘ao, Juncus effusus, 
L. Pro tapetibus, pileis, velis. Ibidem, 48, 3¢ 3E Juncus 
lu kiu wi. Preecedentis usus. See drawing in Phon zo, 
My Ul, 14, under the same Chinese name, which Horr. & 
SCHULTES, 193, give as one of the names for Cyperus rotundus, 
L. Perhaps one of the above names refers to Cyperus 
tegetiformis, [V. infra, 455.] 
£., 134, family Fe FE, without figure and only the two names 
from the Rh va. Fap., 1200, Funcus communis, E. Mey., var. effusus 
EB. 
«LE KG; F WY Viie rh. te, hee A 
= Bv0 P'o This is the 32 IF 7Ts‘z ki. It resembles the 
Kae (a fern, Pteris aquilina) and ean be eaten. 
Ch, VI, 34, hie. ki or tst2 ii, figures a fern which looks 
like Botrychium daucifolium, Wall. 
ae. 65; family ®R- The figure is a copy of S:, X, 25, and has 
no resemblance with a fern. P., XXVII, 25, has a good figure. 
A, ot. Fap., 1794. Se ae : 
178, Chen; FB # Ma lan (horse’s indigo blue). 
. Kuo P‘o :—It is now called K #¥ % BE Ta ye tung lan, 
(winter indigo with large leaves). sae: “ 
Hina Prva :—This is the WE tien (Indigo). : 
it cannot be decided to which of the Chinese tinctorial 
plants furnishing a blue colouring matter [v. infra, 392] the 
