Se whom the princes of the house of Chou traced thei 
148 7 -BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Shi king, 470 :—Hov st [v. infra, 343] gave his people 
the beautiful grains, the black millet (4%) and the double- 
kernelled, ete; and [620] he taught the people how to 
sow and to reap the millets shw and tsi and the black 
millet (Ai). 
A variety of the ki or black millet was called fA p‘e. 
The text of the 2h ya [70] eXplains that two seeds are con- 
tained within one glume, and Kvo P‘o adds that it is a 
variety of the black millet. I am not prepared to say what 
this double-kernelled millet was. It is once mentioned in 
the Shi king together with the ka [v. supra). e 
The & ¥ pai shu or white (glutinous) millet is mentioned 
in the L7 kv (1, 45] among the grains used for food. 
_ §43,—The #§ tsi, the common millet, Panicum miliaceum, 
(the seeds of which are not glutinous) was in the classical 
period much used in sacrifices. 7's' was also the title of an 
office exercised under the Emperor Suun [B.C 2255] the 
functions of which were the supervision of agriculture. The 
holder of this post was $€ K‘1, a brother of the Emperor YA0, 
lineage, [See Mavurs’ Chinese Reader's Manual, p. 228, and 
| Botan, sin. I, p. 7 6.] He was known under the title ite 
 Hov rst. Two odes of the Shi hing [pp. 465, 620] are 
devoted to him, : 
: Lege translates the character tsi generally correctly b 
" panicled millet” or “sacrificial millet,” but in the L ki 
. twice erroneously by “rice.” Li ki, 1, 443:— Artemisia along — 
am millet and rice (the text has % #) burned with the fat 
of the victims in sacrifices, Id., 1, 459 :—Of grain food 
there were millet, the glutinous rice, rice (the text 
BR ®). dd., I, 461:—Glutinous millet (the text has 
ie common millet) suits pork, 
