PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 159 
call it 38 B¥ kiao ts‘ao. It affords an excellent fodder for 
horses; it grows in the marshes of Oh ( Chekiang). In 
spring the young stalks are used as food, as well as in autumn 
the grains. [Comp. also Rh ya, 88, 217.] 
_-P. treats of this plant [XXII], 15] under $f HK among 
_ cereals, and [XIX, 16] under 3 among water-plants, 
The plant here spoken of is the //ydropyrum lutifolium, 
Ledeb., a tall grass, still cultivated throughout China for its 
young stalks, known by the name of 3¢ § kiao pa, which 
are eaten asa vegetable. [Comp. Dr. Hance’s notice of the 
plant in Journ. Bot., 1872, 146.) 1 am not aware that 
“nowadays the seeds of this plant are gathered in China for 
food, but I may observe that the grains of an American 
Species of the same genus [the //. esculentum] yield a con- 
siderable quantity of food io the Indians, wherefore it is also 
— ealled Canadian Rice, 
Figures of the ku or kiao plant [but only leaves] are given 
inthe Kiu huang, LI, 27, and Ch., XVII, 13. | 
; SIEBOLD, Syn. plant. weon. jap. 868, Fe Makoma. 
Graminea, Frumentum pro farina in provinciis septentriona- 
libus Cosjuu ae Mino cultum. " ’ 
~ Phon zo, XXXILI, 21, 22, ff 38. The drawing seems to 
Tepresent Mydropyrum latifolium, 
VV sepya,; 88; 
351.—Bron, in his article on the Manners of the Ancient 
Chinese according to the Shi king, translated by Lecce, 
Shi king, Proleg, 142-171, writes:—We can tell the 
principal kinds of cereals mentioned in the Shi king and point 
out the localities where they were cultivated. They were 
rie, Wheat, barley, buck-wheat (sarrasin), two sorts of 
millet, the shu and the tsi. 
= T have not been able to make out what character in th 
Shi Bror refers to buck-wheat. This grain, now much 
cultivated in China under the name of % HE hu mus, seems 
