PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 151 
Menctus, 296 :—He who is benevolent and righteous does 
not wish for fat meat and fine millet (Jiang). 
345.—In the Shi king [470,] in the ode devoted to the legend 
of How rst, mention is made of a millet fE men. Lecce 
terms it the tall red millet, large-grained millet, a variety of 
Holeus. Wiiutams [ Dict., 577] says that men is the name of 
a variety of millet with reddish culms, now applied in Chihli 
to the glutinous grain of the 2 shu or panicled millet, 
Milium, called J FF 3K men tsz* mi, and used in distilling 
Spirits. But Wririams is mistaken. He intends, it seems, 
the BS F mei tse‘, which is the common panicled millet, not 
he glutinous variety [see the preceding]. 
The Chinese commentator on whom Lxace relies, explains 
e above character men by 3 BE FE ch‘t ang su, ved spiked 
millet, and Kuo P‘o explains by the last three characters the 
men or FR BT chi miao, red blade of the Rh ya, 67. The 
Shuo wen writes Fk HE HE BE, excellent corn of the red blade. 
Hine Pine says that the character men in the Rh ya is the 
same as the men of the Shi king. P., however, takes 
these names to refer to varieties of the shu or, glutinous 
et, not of the liang or Setaria fates, 
BAG, —There oceurs in the Shi king also the character # Ku, 
applied to a kind of millet, which Lace terms the white 
millet, It is mentioned, together with other cereals, [470] in | 
he ode devoted to Hou rst. 284 :—Gathering of white millet 
the fields brought only one year under cultivation. 
—By the Feng water grows the white millet. jaune 
he text of the Rh ya, [68] explains k% by Bt pai miao, 
white blade ; the Shuo wen writes fa BE HE BE, excellent corn 
of the shits blade. Kuo Po explains it by & UE 
i liang su, white Setaria italica. oPi,, however, thinks ° 
that it was ; a t variety of the glutinous millet shu. : 
