274 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Fap., 1198, Funcus balticus, Deth., Aq FE By. - V. supra, 16. 
» 1335, Luzula campestris, DC., Hb iB Hig- ae 
Cyperus [v. supra, 97]. 
Several kinds of Polypodium are called # 
Sip. 1722, I: 
456.—Zj Lie. A plant mentioned in the Li ki, the Chou u 
and the Rh ya. Lecce calls it a reed. It was employed b 
sorcerers. ! | 
Chou li, II, 248:—Le pécher (Pk t‘ao) et la plante lié 
employés dans la cérémonie du serment. Commentator | 
(Cuenc Hian):—Le pécher est redouté des esprits. Les 
vergettes faites avec la plante li¢ servent a _expulser l 
mauvais présages. 
Li ki, I, 172:—When a ruler went to the mourning rite 
for a minister, he took with him a sorcerer (HR) with a} ch 
wand (WE), an officer of prayer with his reed [brush] (li 
and a lance-bearer, disliking [the presence of death]. Cue . 
Hitan explains lie by #£ 2% huan t‘iao, and says it he 
the power to sweep away evil. Regarding huan, see 455 
the second character stands for $f freer in flower. 
[V. Rh ya, 210). ae 
Tso cauan, 544, 547 :—Accordingly a "sorcerer | 
employed, who first executed the sprinkling with a brane 
a peach tree and some reeds (BE Zi). : 
The character lie in the Rh ya is applied to three if 
plants [85, 142, 193] but not to a reed. 
As to the peach wand employed in sorcery, it seems notq . 
sure that by t‘ao in the above-quoted passages really a 
tree is to be understood. In the Shan hai hing Be et 
(peach branch) is repeatedly mentioned as the name of 
herb, sometimes also as the name of a tree. The Shan . 
king mentions also a plant @4 Hs hou tuan. Kuo bg ‘0 sa) 
. itis a kind of t‘ao chi, The Kuang ya gives both names 
