246 - BOTANICON SINICUM, 
Ouu Hi says:—The way of divination by the tortoise 
by the application of fire, to scorch the shell till the 
indications appeared on it ; and that by the stalks of: the s 
plant was to manipulate in the prescribed way 49 of them, 
18 different times, till the diagram was formed. Lecce 
calls this divination sometimes “divination by reed 
[Shi king, 98, 266.] 
Lecce [ Shu king, 335] calls the sh? plant milfoil. Wrettams 
[ Dict., 758] says it is a sort of syngenesious plant resemb 
the Anthemis, the Ptarmica sibirica, which grows aro 
CoyFructus’ grave in Kiih feu, and, as was done in ancien 
times, is still sold there in parcels of 64 stalks, for divination 
The stems were once used for hair-pins. 
From the account given of the shi plant in P., aS 
we may conclude that it belongs to the order of Composite. 
The drawing of it in Ch, mis 5, 1s Very hs and ; 
ideintifieation: can be ventured. 
In the So moku, XVII, 44, # is the Achillea sibi 
 Ledeb. This is a common plant in the mountains 
Northern China. But whether it really was the divin 
plant of the ancient Chinese, I am not prepared to. 
At Peking the name shi is umknown. 
E., 00, family z. Figure the same as P., XV, 7, which ca 
neither be Achillea nor any other composita, but may he 
for a Hypericum ? 
S., I, 32, has two figures which may both agai ie / 
one large flowered, the other small flowered. : 
Jap., 39, Achillea sibirica, _Ledeb. 
429 —The genus Artemisia is represented in China. b 
considerable number of species. Forpes and Humstey 
the Index Flore sinensis, enumerate 21. In the Shi king 
meet with eight names of plants referred by Leage : 
others to Southernwood or Artemisia, 
