BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Gs 2112, Sorghum saccharatum, Pars , ay B. 
— -Fap., 936, Fagopyrum esculentum, Moench, % BE. 
=o Fap., 371, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Roem. & Schult., ine HE. 
ae noe: character FE ho, another general term for cereals, 
occurs frequently in the Classics. The Shwo wen explains 
it by 3 BY excellent corn. The Kuang ya says ho is 
term for growing ripe jilants of millet and rice. Cat Hi 
explains that it is a general name for growing grain in stal 
; Lecce, in the Shi king, 232, 469, says that ho means grow- 
ing grain, especially paddy (rice). W./)., 254, ho= growing 
grain, especially paddy in the Southern Provinces and wh 
in the Northern ; grain, corn. 
i RRS, the cultivated plants which furnish ce ea 
“ood to the Chinese, Rice takes the most important place. 
It was cultivated in China from a very early period and 
oo noticed in almost all the ancient classical works 
ae the name of #§ tao, which is still in use. 
ae TED: 868, says that tao means rice when growing in the 
: ‘fel, ply and [590] that rice after it is hulled is called 
ie Lecer translates tao by rice in the plant, paddy, also 
‘oi rice, 
«1,117 :—According to the rules for all : sacrifices 
: the ancestral temple, tao, paddy, i is called ¥% He ka shu 
admirable vegetable), I, 226, tao, unhulled rice, presented 
: : _ by the common people, in winter, for the sacrifice to the spi 
’ of the land, Thidem, 1, 295 [ Yue ling] :—Last mon he 
autumn, the Son of Heaven eats dog’s flesh with ney 
4  ‘Thidem, I, 459, 460: :—Rice used for food by the —— 
: people? = and must made of rice. 
. » Li | 268i, 1, 450, Lecoxe translation. My see oe in Tracks 
i Sheet fod thee were :—millet [ v. infra, 341, Panicum miliacel 
vl the lutinous tice [sic] FB v. infra, 343, pice " 
> Maize [ee v. infra, 344, Setaria italica}, * 
millet es ®). Ds bod the yellow maize ( ye v. infra, a4, variety 
“ ria a cut when _ or when green, 
