PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 249 
Li ki, 1, 257 :—First month of spring. If the govern- 
‘mental proceedings proper to autumn were carried out in 
spring, there would be pestilence, boisterous winds, rain in 
torrents ; orach (3%) fescue (#§) darnel (3) and southern- 
wood () would grow up together. 
Kh ya, 13, hao or shen. Kou Pro explains the names by 
So 4 tsting hao, 
Ohi ar Hao or tstng hao. It is fragrant and fit for being 
used as mova. In Ff JH King chou and ff Jp Yii_ chon 
(Hukuang and Honan) the people call it fag shen (kien). 
This latter character is explained in the Shuo wen by FB 
hiang hao (fragrant Artemisia ). 
©, XV, 16, ef ts‘ing hao also ¥ ¥& hiang hao, and other 
hames. From the descriptions given there it would seem 
Zz that this is the Artemisia annua, L., a very common 
Species throughout China, and very fragrant. Popular name 
at Peking hiang hao. : 
But in Ch, XI, 92, the figure under FE BH huang 
hua hao ( yellow flower Artemisia) seems to refer to A. annua, 
which identification would agree with the So moku [XVI, 27]. 
n the same Japanese work [25] TF HB is A. apiacea, Hee., 
which agrees with the figure under the same Chinese name 
Ch, X1, 93. 
Ame. evol., S9T, BE ko, vulgo jamoyé Artemisia folio— 
tenuissimo, THUNBERG [ Flora jap., 310} thinks that Kamp- 
FER refers to 4. Japonica, : . 
: 432,— gy Wei. Lear says a species of southernwood. : 
Shi king, 351 :—Long and large grows the ngo fat 434). 7 
Bat it is not the ngo but the wei. | 
Ath yay 14, wei or. mou shen (kien). 
LU kt:—The wei is also called fk # mou hao (male 
eetewr ond) It begins to grow in the_ third month ; in 
ve seventh month it is in flower. The flowers resemble 
