PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 161 
minore, semine nigricante [ Amen. exot., 835] may rathér refer 
to P. crus galli, The plant represented in the Phon zo, XLI, 
15, under 54 ## (pai growing in dry grounds) is P. erus gall, 
Ibidem, 14, is the J # (water pa?) likewise a Panicum. 
According to Horrm. & Scuvuires [407] this Chinese name 
is applied in Japan to P. erus corv?, L. 
E., 40, family #R, figure probably of Panicum crus galli. 
oe Vegetables. 
853.—The classical Chinese name for vegetables in general 
was #R su. [See Lucar’s Shi king, 548.] In the Rh ya 
(FB #) this term is identified with 3€ ¢s‘a/ which still to 
this day is the common name for culinary vegetables. The 
_ term ts‘ai oceurs in the Li ki and in the Shi king, but in 
the latter only once in the name of an edible water-plant 
hing ts'ai [o. infra, 399]. The Shuo wen explains ts‘ai by 
edible herbaceous plants. pees 
The character ¥ shu, likewise an old term for vegetables, 
explained in the Shuo wen by 3%, is, however, not used in 
the Chinese Classics in this sense. : 
aS There oceurs in the Li ki a character (38 mao} which 
_ Carye Hitan explains by ¢s‘u/ (vegetable), the Rh ya (# B) 
by ed (to pluck). Kuo P*o adds :—to pluck up vegetables. 
: The passage in the Li ki Mt EY Az 3E is translated by 
lnoce [I, 461] :—Pheasants and hares were [made into 
bate with the duckweed ; and, ibidem, the term 3 38 is 
. Tendered [I, 451] by “soup with vegetables.” 
: » same character (mao) is found in the Shi king. Ma 
tg Plains it by “to pick out, to select.” Laake [4] translates 
according to the Sung commentaries by “to cook,” and_ 
ie bg that this meaning is supported from the Li ke. 
