PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 221 
P., XIX, 24, shun. The figure in Ch., XVIII, 14, a 
_water-plant with peltate leaves. ; 
SmeBoLD, Syn. plant. won. jap., 207, Villarsia peltata 3% 
gjun sa?, Herba mucilaginosa in jusculis magni estimata. 
According to Francuer & Savatier [Lnum. Pl. Jap., L 
25], the plant figured in the Phon zo [XXXIV, 10] under 3% 
or djioun se is not Villarsia peltata (= Limnanthemum pel- 
_ tatum, Griseb., order Gentianacee), but Brasenia. peltata, 
Pursh., a water-plant, order Nympheacee, found also in 
North America and India. [See Botan. Mag., tab. 1147.] 
It was first called Hydropeltis purpurea. The whole plant is 
coated with a gelatinous substance. It is the Menyanthes 
nymphoides of THunserc [Flora jap., 82]. In the Amen. eot. 
[82] the above Chinese and Japanese names are erroneously 
referred to a Sagittaria. : z 
This plant has not yet been met within China by European 
botanists, but the drawing in Ch. may well represent 
_ Brasenia, and the above early description of it by Lu xt 
agrees, 
: £, 65, family ag, Figure probably a Mympheacea, wor . 
different from P., XIX, 24. #8 
_ Mao is also a synonym of H Hi. £., 130. ~ 
Jap., 372, Brasenia peltata. : 
 899.—The water-plant 7% 3 hing (hang) ts‘ai_ (the first 
character is also written #¢, according to the Shuo wen) 
mentioned in the first ode of the Shi king, has been ezro- 
‘neously identified by Leaar with the duck-weed, Lemna 
_ Shi king, I :—Here long, here short is the duck-weed 
(hang ts‘ai), to the left, to the right, borne about by the 
current, oc Pe ee 
_ Lreer says :—The hang ts‘ai is described (by Cau Hi) = 
growing in the water, long or short, according to the depth, 
with a round reddish leaf, which floats on the surface and ¥ 
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