BOTANICON SINICUM. 
 italicum, 1), easily distinguished from the panicled millet 
by its long and dense compound nodding spikes. This is 
“also largely cultivated for food in the South of Europe. 
_ See regarding the liang, P., XXIII, 7. The popular nam 
of it at Peking is # fF, kw tsz‘, the hulled corn is called” 
IW RK siao mi (small grain). Its grains are much smaller _ 
than those of Panicum miliaceum. In the north of China, 
where rice is not much cultivated, it forms the principal food 
_ of the lower classes, 
A good drawing of the plant, under Jiang, is found in 
= Eig, 18. The plant figured under 3 in the Phon 
_—— [XLL, 7, 8] is likewise Setaria italica. 
| Brot [Le I, 70] translates the character lang by gros: 
millet or Holes. Lege renders it by large-grained millet, 
but more generally by maize. I may observe that maize 
an American plant, was unknown to the ancient Chinese 
i Wit1ams [ Dict., 525] identifies the liang correctly with th 
: = _ eommon spiked millet, but he is wrong in calling it “ cana 
a . seed,” for the latter is supplied by Phalaris canariensis. — 
Pes ft hi, T, 106 :—In bad years, when the grain is 
. _ coming . -+..., the great officers will not eat the large 
Stained millet (liang), I, 117:—According to the ru 
for the sacrifices in the ancestral temple, the lang % 
ee called ¥ $E hiang ki [regarding ki, see infra, 354}. J, 429 
| (a. Pood of the Ancient. Chinese 1 :—Maize (hang 
are and x ellow maize (#@ YE), cut when ripe or when green. 
ae I, 461 :—Maize (liang) suits dog. 
oy _ Chou li, I, 94:—Le millet liang convient avec le chien. : 
_ Shi ting, 184 :—We eannot plant our rice and maize 
(Hang), how shall our parents get food? 301 :—Yello 
< pee not eat my maize (liang). 379 :—The 40 
‘Me. zine and the maize (liane will awake the joy of ot 
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