PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 153 
Menctus, 85:—Rice and other grain (3% 38) Conv. 
Anal., 49, grain (sv). Ch‘un tiv, 759 -—In summer we 
sent grain (su) to Ts‘ai. :. 
The explanation of the character 3E in the Shuo wen is 
Ee @, the fruit of the excellent cere. 
In P., XXIII, 9, ¥f, it is statel that originally su was a 
general name for grain, but in later times this term was 
applied to the 3 Lang or spiked millet, and, especially to a 
Variety of it distinguished by its smaller spikes and shorter 
bristles, Such a plant is figured unJer the name of su in 
Ch, I, ii, 
Amun, evot., 835 :— 3 dsjekie, vulgo awa. Panicum, juba 
magna pendula, villosa, semine aureo. Panieum domesticum, 
—Matth. = Panicum indicum, Tabern, K.mprer refers, it 
seems, to Setariu ftalica. [Comp. Horrm. & ScHULTEs, 408, 
Phon zo, XLI, 9, 10.] 
848.—The Seturia italiea in’ China has, like the panicled - 
millet, produced varieties with glutinous seeds. Li Sut- 
—CheN, in P., XXII, 12, and before him earlier writers, 
identity the grain plant $K shu, mentioned in the Classics, 
With a glutinous variety of Bt Liang or YE su. The Rh ya, 
28, gives shu as a synonym of 4 chung, and Kvo P%o 
explains it by glutinous sv. Other Chinese authors seem 
to confound $F with the homophonous character FE shu 
ote pra, BAL]. The Shuo wen says that it is a glutinous 
Variety of the #§, 
a Regarding the meaning of $f in the Li ki [v. supra, 338]. 
Chow li, UL, 516 517:—Pour teindre les plumes qui 
S doivent orner les ¢tendards et les drapeaux du char de 
_ Fempereur, on trempe dans le einabre des grains de millet 
«Rouge (BR). Aprés trois lines on les fait euire. On les 
Mose ‘et: on y trempe les plumes. Bror, in translating the 
