BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Mao is of opinion that in the above-quoted passages from 
. oa: Shi king the character k7 refers to different plants, for 
470 he explains it by & , as in the RA ya; in 284 by 
- vegetable; ; and in 463 by #¥ herb. Lu x1 describes the Be 
_ asa kind of sow-thistle [v. infra]. (nu Ht also understands. 
by Hi the Ff 3 Mu ts‘ai ov sow-thistle. But Lucas, following 
YEN ts‘aw and Kiang Prye-caane, translates &¢ in all t 
__ three passages by white millet. 
In the Shan hai hing, ki is the name of a tree, By K. 
B47 —The character JE su, applied nowadays to a dis 
- grain plant (Setaria), had in ancient times only the meaning 
of unhulled grain. Leaar [Mencius, 466, note] states! that sw 
was rice in the husk, and 3& m/, hulled rice, that according 
to the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, anciently su was the general name 
for all glumaceous grain, and that it is now pe used 
for tnillet. — 
ae Fs ki, I, 84: :—K HK su mi, unbulled grain and hulled 
- grain, The commentary says :—sw same as ku (general name 
for grain). After the husk has been taken off it 
_ aalled mi, 
; Chou li, 1, 390 :—Les officiers des dépdts sonit ohare 
: : -conserver les. quantités livrées de grains non écorces (SE 
Shi king, 301: :—Yellow bird, do not eat my paddy (su). 
335 : >—With a handful of grain (sw) I go out and divi 
how I may be able to become good, 
Shou king, 142:—Five hundred Li constituted the imperil 
- domain From the first hundred li they brought as rev 
he whole plant of the grain (#@); from the second 
Some the ears ($#) ; from the third they brought only 
= (Ff), but had to perform other services ; fr om th 
fourth they, gave the grain in the husk (3%). and from 
& fifth the —_ cleaned (3). 
