258 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
capsulis Burse pastoris, intermixtis foliolis, confertas. Ido 
not know what Kamprer means. 
Sresotp [Syn. plant. eon. jap., 108] refers the above 
Chinese name to Rumex crispus, L., japonice gist gisi. 
Remedium agricolis in exanthematibus. 
So moku, VII, 27, same Chinese name, &. japonieus, 
Meissn. 
- $ap., 1953, Rumex aquaticus, L., var. japonicus, Meisn., £ KE. 
» 1954, 4, japonicus, Meisn., 2E BR. 
441.—Another plant, which may be a umew, is mentioned 
in the Shi king under the name of Si mo. Lecce thinks 
that it is the sorrel, Rumew acetosa, but notices that in the 
Japanese plates it appears as Equisetum (horse tail) which ie 
evidently a mistake. 
Shi king, 164:—There in the oozy grounds of the Hwun 
(# Fen, a river in Shansi) they gather the sorrel (mo), 
Mao explains that mo is a vegetable. 
Lu x1:—The stem of the mo is as thick as a goose-quill, — 
of a red colour, and giving out at every joint leaves like the 
willow, thick and long, covered with hairy prickles. It is of | 
a sour taste and when young can be boiled into soup. It is 
also eaten raw Its common name in China is #& 3 sua” mi. 
In 3 JH Ki chou (Chili) it is called BE # Aan ang” 
(dry red), in jaf ¥ Ho Fen (Shansi) it is 3% mo. ae 
The above account would agree in a general way with - 
Sorrel, but that plant is glabrous. i 
P. [XIX, 7] describes under the name RR #R svar ™? 
(sour mo) a plant with a sour taste, resembling the yang | 
[see the preceding]. Some authors identify it with the plan 
[Rh ya, 105}. A rude drawing of the plant, Ch., XVII, 9 
Stesoip, Syn. plant. acon. jap., 109, HR PE sues Rumen 
persicaroides (ie., R. japonicus, Meissn.). Herba edulis. + 
moku, VII, 29, 80, same Chinese name, F. acetosa, L, 
