PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 265 
Amen. evot., 785 :—ZF HE ksei, vulgo jodoriki. Viscum 
baeeis rubentibus. Description of the plant. According to 
Maximowicz this is Loranthus Kempferi, growing on pine 
trees in Japan. 
Phon zo, XC, 8, 9, 3& BH 4B, Visewm album, L. It 
grows on mulberry trees. 
But the character $$" in Anwn. exot. [887] is referred to 
Tedera helix. : 
E., 180, family & _[E ZF AB. Figure of a Loranthus. 
C., 58. H., 35. Sm, 93, 152. 
450.—As to the Z HH nii lo, Mao explains it by 3% HR tu se“ 
and #& 3 sung lo. Cuexa Htan says it is called t‘w sz 
when growing on herbaceous plants and sung lo when 
growing on trees. I understand that he means by fw sz‘ and 
sung lo different plants, not one plant with two names. 
The sung lo in P., XXXVII, 15, is Viscum. Phon 20, 
NCH, 10, 11, 12, #8 HEHE, Viseum album, TL. and 
Loranthus Kempferi. . 
The Rh ya [131] says that ni lo or ttang meng [see the 
newt] is the same as fu sz‘. 
Lu k1:—The ni lo is now called t*u sz (rabbit’s silk). - 
_ twines around herbaceous plants, like gold wire. It is yellow 
or of a red colour and used in medicine. It is not to be 
confounded with the sung lo, which grows ‘on trees and is of a 
green colour. — . 
" , ‘ i‘ J ) eens 
{uw sx* or rabbit’s silk is the common Chinese name 
for dodder, Cuscuta. Several species of it are known in 
China. The most common in the neighborhood of Peking 
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® Ch, XXVII, 6 figures under the name B HE WB niao Wo ited 
the Ipomea quamoclit, L. This beautiful climbing convolvulaceous eet 
With pinnate leaves, the pinne being filiform, and dark red flowers, 15 mee 
Cultivated at Peking. Popular name mi lo sung. — 
_ So moku, LV, 21, B 32; Ipomea quamoclit. (Jap., 1158.] 
