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the wind and driven across the wastes. This phenomenon 
of plants being driven across the desert is frequently seen 
in Mongolia. 
In the Phon zo, XLI, 20, F#R XE is Hrigeron. In sha 
So moku, XVII, 12, 3 is Conyza ambigua, DC., a composite B 
plant. Ibidem, IV, 43, fe 3 is Salsola asparagoides, Miq. 
The plant represented in Ch., XII, 40, under the same 
Chinese name kien p‘eng seems to be a Salsolacea. Kien means — 
Soda. Another ‘salsolaceous plant is figured in Ch., XII, 42, 
under the name ji 3€ sha peng (sha=sand) a plant of " 
the desert. It is perhaps Agriophyllum. | 
Two passages in the Li ki refer to arrows made of the 
p‘eng. Laer translates wild Rubus or Raspberry. ee 
I, 472:—When a son and heir to the ruler of a State was 
born . . . . the master of the archers took a bow of mulberry — 
wood and six arrows of the wild Rubus (p‘eng), and shot 
towards heaven, earth and the four cardinal points. After 
this the nurse received the child. Nearly the same is rele 
II, 452. : 
Lecce in translating p‘eng by Rubus, has evidently a 
view the 3H p'eng lei [P., XVIIla, 7]. It is figured in 
Ch. (XXII, 7] and is indeed a Rubus. In Japan the same 
Chinese name is applied to R. crategifolius., Bge, # 
R. pectinellus, Maxim. [See Phon zo, XXV, 7, 8.] But 
whether the p‘eng in the above passages of the Li k¢ means a 
ee bush is very doubtful. e 
V. supra, 15. Fap., 886, Evigeron Kamtschaticum, DC., a 
1977, Salsola aspar., Wi, E- é 
About Rubus [v. supra, 133]. 
Fap., 1932, Rubus Buergeri, Miq., x FY. 
» 1935, 4, incisus, Thbg., By F. 
» 1938, ,, parvifolius, L., #% FA B- . 
| » 1943, 4, — rosifolius, Sm., var. coronarius, Sims, AR 
1947, 5 Thunbergii, 8. & Z., 3% &- 
