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PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 183 
310.—Fe Kin, Leaar says:—Cress, so figured in the 
Japanese plates. The term is now applied to cress, parsley, 
celery. 
Shi king, 402:—Right up bubbles the water from the 
spring and they gather the cress (A‘in) about it. 616 :— 
The college, surrounded with a canal and sown with cress 
(kin) and other water-plants [v. infra, 398, 401]. 
Chou li, 1, 110 :—Provisions for the table of the Son of 
Heaven and offered in sacrifice. Les terrines supplémen- 
taires sont remplies avec des plantes confites de lespece khin 
(FF). I, 111 :—kin was one of the seven vegetable pickles 
[see 376, note]. 
Rh ya, 116 :—The Kin is also called 4 3 ch‘u Kur. 
What the Chinese cultivate at Peking under the name of 
Kin or kin ts‘ai, also BFE han kein (kun cultivated in dry 
soil) is the common celery, Apium graveolens, L. Ch., ILI, 
40, verso :—The character k‘in is written in various ways 10 
Chinese works, viz., FE, Hy and Hy. : 
The 9K FE shui kin (water &‘in) is another umbelliferous 
plant. P., XXVI, 58, Ch., ILL, 40, Kiw huang, LVUI, 37. 
According to Lourniro, [Flora, cochin., 228] wuel kin 
(shui kin) in Southern China is Sium sisarum, L.A pot-herb 
cultivated in water. Henry, J. ¢., 67 :—Shw kin ts‘ae 
Hupei is Gnanthe stolonifera, DC. af 
Amen, ewot., 825 :—FE Kin vulgo Seri Petroselinum folio 
Alsines, Morsus Galline dicte. Taunsere, [/lora, jap» 120] 
Tefers Kamprer’s seri to A [pum petroselinum. SIEBOLD, = 
Syn plant eweon. jap., 246:—FE Apium seri. Se moku 
~Y;19 [IK BR Gnanthe stolonifera. In Japanese ae 
V. 38, 116. Fap., 1505, Gnanthe stolonifera, DC., 
. 
Other Umbelliferze are mentioned :— te 
Fap., 391, Bupleurum falcatum, L., dé oe Hi. 
a 394, 5; sachalinense, Fr. Schm., 
» 539, Caucalis [v. supra, 91]. 
