256 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
resembles a mouse’s ear, and I think he had rather in view 
the fruit of the plant. Lace quotes the Rh ya i, where it is 
stated that the fruit of the kan rh is like a mouse’s ear and 
prickly, sticking to people’s clothes. 
P., XV, 64, si rh. Lt Sai-cHen says the fruit resembles 
the mulberry and is prickly. The Pen ts‘ao king calls the 
plant 3F FH ts‘ang rh. This is now the vulgar name for the 
NXuathium strumarium, L., 2 common weed throughout China. 
It has a small, oblong, prickly fruit. It is ‘represented in 
the Kiu huang [LII, 22] and in Ch. (XI, 50). 
Amen, evot., 892 :—%#& EE soon! vulgo namome. Xanthium 
~ Lappa minor, So moku, XX, 25:—Same Chinese name. 
Xanthium strumarium. But wider # FH the So moku 
[VILI, 71] depicts Cerastium glutinosum, Fries. 
439.—3¢ #F Fou i, Title of an ode in the SA/ king and 
name of a plant which Lecce correctly identifies with the 
plantain (Plantago). sa: 
Shi king, 14 :—Song of the plantain-gatherers. We gathe: 
the plantain, now we pluck the ears, now we rub out t 
seeds, now we place the seeds in our skirts. Lega adds 
From the preface (of the Shi) it appears that these seeds were 
thought to be favourable to child-bear ing. They are * 
thought in China to be helpful in difticult labours. 
The Lh yu [200] gives as a synonym for fou 4 ik ch 
is* ven, which is still the common Chinese name for Plantago. 
Lu kt:—Fou i, other names ma si, ch‘e tsien [as int 
Lth ya), Be tang tao. It grows in the footmarks of cattl 
whence the names ch‘e ts‘ien (ahead of the cart) and tang t 
(this answers to the German name for Plantago— W egerich 
* The seeds are used as a medicine, ,especially in difficu 
ae parturition. The people of Ey I Yu chou ( Northern Chi 
call it 46 BB owu she ts*uo (ox tonzue). But this 1 
