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_ Colitur tam ob flores speciosos tam ob radicem qua in usum 
_ officinarum colligitur. © So moku, X, 23, under above Chinese 
—hame, japonice sjuk jok, P. albiflora. 
2? By rns, 116, family 27 #8, with good figure of Pronia 
albifiora. 
Sm., 169. ' 
404.—9j Ki is an ancient form for ¥j ki, the well-known 
garden flower Chrysanthemum sinense, Sab. ; the character 
is met with in the Ri ya [130] and in the Ritual Classics. 
Liki, I, 291 [ Yate ling] :—Last month of autumn. Chry- 
santhemums show their yellow flowers. (Chrysanthemums 
: in China flower late in autumn and in winter). Chou I, 
II, 390 :—Le préposé aux grenouilles est chargé d’éloigner 
les grenouilles et les crapauds. Il bréile des plantes khieou 
. de Fespéce mile (st #%), il les asperge avec les cendres de 
Ces plantes et alors ces animaux meurent. Comm. B. (Carne 
—Hban) :—Le khicow mile n’a pas de fleurs. . 
Calendar of the Hia, 105 :—Ninth month. Become beau- 
-tiful the Chrysanthemums. But the &éi in 17, first month, is 
hot, it seems, Chrysanthemum, as Dovgias translates, but 
rather the name of a star, as the Chinese commentator 
explains, OR SEE 
Pit the Shan ‘hai king the common character 9, for 
Chrysanthemum, occurs. . 
o fy SV, tke Drawings, Kiw huang, Lill, 20. 
Ch, AB 1-2 Amen: evot., 815, By kik, hikf, kikku, log 
/Matricaria, huic etiam kawara jamogi dicta (jamogi Artemi-— 
slam significat), Cujus cum sylvestris tum preecipue hortensis, 
plurime sunt yarietates, So moku, XVII, 18, 3 Chrysan- 
themum sinense, 
‘ 
re supra, 130. , : 
405-95 Kien. This: name’ oceurs’ twive in the Shi hing. 
Mao defines it by jf lan. Leece says that in the Japanese 
lates this plant plainly appears to be Valeriana villosa. 
