| URE. infra, 552)—pepper [# Zanthoxylon or Eeodia, v. infra, 198} 
170 : ’ BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The Shuo wen defines the character ts‘ung by ts‘aé, vegetable. 
V. supra, 1-4. i 
398.—Garlic, Allium sativum, L., in Chinese #2 suan, is 
also known to the Chinese from a very early period, It 
is mentioned as a vegetable in the Calendar of the Hia 
[121]:—In the 12th month they gather the swan, the bulbs 
of which resemble testicles, BN luan. : 
The Rh ya [4] mentions a wild kind of garlic, which is 
also called li. The Shuo wen explains the character suan by 
@ XX (strong smelling vegetable), ; 
The Rh ya cheng i relates the following tradition :—It onee 
happened, when the Emperor Huane tr was ascending the 
mountain § [ly Li shan [see Botan. sin., I, p. 26, 27] that 
[some of his followers] were poisoned by the plant vial oa 
yu yt (probably an Avoidea), but by eating the suan plant, 
which was likewise found there, they were saved. Since 
that time the swan is cultivated in China as a vegetable. 
Shula the property of destroying the noxious effect of putrid 
meat and fish, — 
A good drawing of the Garlic plant swan is found in 
Ch, UL, 71. Amen, ewot., 831, #2 san, vulgo sir and ninnihi 
Porram commune capitatum. According to FRaNcHEt, 
— Vingiku is. A, scorodoprasum, which plant appears in the So : 
moku, V1, 30, under the Chinese name of bi- pase 
, SIEBoLD [Syn. plant. weon. jap., 90] gives Fe ip (great 
swan) as the Chinese name for garlic in Japan. ase 
“The ancient Chinese authors quoted in P., XXVL, i- 
ne distinguish the IW FF s’a0 swan, small garlic, which is said 
to be that commonly cultivated in China, from the * ie 
Onions (2%) —scattions [SE Allium odorum, v. infra, 359], ae 
® infra, 360]—mustard [FE, v. infra, 862]—lichens Le 
_ Mushrooms, r, infra, 380). nanon on 
L OF spices there are mentioned :—ginger [H, 0. infra, 88) Oe 
smart weed [BE Polygonum hydropiper, ¢. infra, 366). 
