178 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
188:—Would you gather the sow-thistle (¢-w) at the foot s 
Shou yang? 231 [“ Life in Pin” ] :—7th month. They gather ; 
the sow-thistle (wv). 438 :—The sow-thistle (éw) is bs sweet 
as a dumpling. In 525 we have the term 7 3% tu tu, 
here meaning figuratively “bitter and poisonous.” Cae Hi 
says :—The f‘u is a bitter vegetable, whose taste is bitter and 
its juice acrid and injurious to life, hence it is called Pag tu. 
Mao explains tv in the above passages by Au ts‘a/, as in 
the Rh ya. 
Lu k1:—The tu or ku ts‘ai grows in mountain fields and 
marshes, After hoar frost the plant becomes sweet, soft and 
pleasant, which explains the sentence in the Shi “ the t*w ae : 
sweet as a dumpling.” In the chapter Nei tsz‘ of the Li ki 
it is said that sucking-pig was stewed and wrapped up in the 
leaves of the k*w ts‘ai. | 
The passage referred to by Lu x1 is found in the Li k (1, 
460]. The Chinese text has only #, the commentators say 
G 3K is meant, and K‘ung Yrxo-ra explains that the Sonchus 
leaves drive away the bad smell. . 
Li ki, I, 268, [ Yue ling] :—First month of summer. The 
sow-thistle (k‘u ts‘ai) is in seed. | a 
Chow li, U1, 509 :—Blancheur du jus de la plante tow (#)- : 
Calendar of the Hia [57] :—4th month. Collected are the 
sow-thistles (¢‘x) ; [89] :—7th month. Luxuriant are the 
 sow-thistles, 
In the Shi king [146] éw means flowering rushes. Luger 
translates :—The girls were like flowering rushes (¢‘u). Mao 
explains here tu by KFA (unknown to me,—the first 
character denotes a water-plant, Luryale ferow). Cay 
- Huan explains it by 3 3} (flowering mao grass) [v infra, 
460]. 7*u has the same meaning in the Shi [p. 234], where 
Mao explains it by # 3%, which latter term is referred a 
Kone Yine-ra to the Lh ya [214] (rushes). 3 stands for 
Fh see the 2h ya [209, 210]. , | 
