EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF TREES. 133 
314.— WE # a dead [tree] is called Bi. 
See Lrear’s Shi king, 449. 
315.—ZR $f] HE branches of trees rubbing against each | 
other [Kuo P‘o] is Ba 
316,—}H Tso; FR Ts'o. 
Kuo P‘o :—The rough, coarse bark of a tree. 
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317.—Hj Shao ; fj #2 Shao chao. 
Kvo P‘o :—A branchless tree. 
3] 8.— 4 Tsung th & Sung ye po shen, leaves of the 
sung (pine tree), trunk of the po (Thuja). . 
__ Kvo P‘o:—The wood of this tree is now used for the 
building of tem ples. 
PF Sur rsz‘ says:—The rats (thieves) know well that the 
fsung timber is better than that of the sung and the po (pine 
and Thuja), ‘ ; 
In the KKF.P., LXE 84, is a short and obscure 
— account of the tsung tree. It is said to be a tall, coniferous 
tree. The greenish yellow fruit is first of a sour, harsh 
2 taste, but after hoar frost becomes edible. 
WD, 1025, identifies the tsung, arbitrarily, it seems, with 
_ the larch or spruce, Lariv orientalis, which latter is an old 
vate [Touryerorr] for the Cedar of Lebanon. 
SIEBoLp, Syn. plant. weon. jap. 58, He Abies Mom, 
Lignum subtilitatem et candorem queesitum. This is Abies 
Sima, 8. & %., [Jap 4}. Flora japon., Ul, 15, tab. 107 
(same as J, bifida and A, homolepis, 8. & Z., according to 
Fraxcunr), Phon zo, UXXVIL, 3. : 
mc) eee Hui; $4 FE HBG Po ye sung shen leaves of the po 
| (Thuja), trunk of the sung (pine). (V. infra, 506, Juniperus. } 
