PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 251 
See the Rh ya [12], fan or p‘o hao. Hia Calendar, 
30:—Second month. The fan plant is gathered. 1 do not 
_ know on what authority Douezas translates fan by Ailantus 
glandulosa. 
Lu x1:—The fan or p‘o hao is a kind of ai [Artemisia 
vulgaris, see 429] of a white colour (ie. downy leaves). 
Tt is also called fy # pai hao (white Artemisia). It begins 
to grow in spring and (flowers) till autumn. It is fragrant, 
can be eaten raw and cooked. Another name for the plant 
ie is 9% BH yu hu. The people in JE ¥# Pei hai (Hastern 
_ Shantung) call it 33 4h p‘ang pu. 
P., XV, 20, pai hao. The name is explained by the 
downy surface of the leaves. The figure of the plant in 
Ch. [XI, 7] is of no yalue. In the Peking mountains the 
3 people apply the name pai hao to Artemisia Sieversiana, Ehr. 
In the So moku [XVI, 26] & & is Artem. Schmidtiana. 
Maximowicz says :—Tota argenteo-sericea. 
— 434.—38 O (ngo). This name Lxcee translates by Aster 
- southernwood, because he found in the Japanese plates that 
the common name of the plant in Japan is # #F 3 Chao 
Mien kit or Aster of Corea. He says the white flower 
with which it is there depicted is very like a Chrysan- — 
themum, | may observe that the plant mentioned in the 
— Amen, exot, [911] under koret giku, Matricaria corensis, is, 
- According to Taunsere [Flora jap., 320], Chrysanthemum 
— Cronarium, L. But the 6, in China at least, is not Chrysan- 
 themum. This character is not met with in the Japanese 
_ botanical works known to me. 
Shi king, 279: :—Luxuriantly grows the aster southern- 
Wood (6) in the midst of that large mound. 351 :—Long 
and large grows the ngo. 
_ The Rh ya [44] has 6 or lo. Mao colette aE 
lo hao as also does the Shuo wen, The Kuang ya has lo hao 
