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275 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Horrm. & Scuuures, 539 :—2, Se/rpus maritimus, ¢ 
120, same Chinese name, Care. ceespitosa, Thbg. I ia 
192, ji BR, Cyperus Iria, L. ‘ 
Japanese hats made of the kasa suge or Scirpus maritimus 
were exhibited in 1878 at Paris. [See Mine, Prod. wégé. du 
Japon, 1885, p. 138. ] 
Mao explains the character # so by #% # (clothes mad 
of grass). K‘una Yine-ra adds that these clothes protect 
against rain. [Comp. also Shu king, 108. Tribute of Yii:- 
The wild people of the islands brought garments of ‘7 
FE Me hur fu.) 
Nowadays the Chinese agricultural labourers wear rail- 
cloaks, so-7 and hats made out of the hair-like bracts of a 
palm, the Chamerops Fortune’, Lindl. [See Fortune's 
Wanderings, 58, 54.] 
V. supra, 73, 97. 
Fap., 452, Carex dispalatha, Boott, =. 
458.—The Shan hai king mentions a plant # i led ts‘ao. 
Kuo P‘o explains that it is the Pf 3 ts‘ing Jan, which 
resembles the 73 so but is larger. He evidently means th 
cy Ni} ts‘ing fan, a plant mentioned in one of the poems 
Sz‘ma Stanq-su [t 126 B.C., together with the ji} so, and th 
HE sve, and in Crane Hena’s poem Nan tu fu [After ‘5 
dynasty] together with FE piao, BE huan and AF chfue The 
Shuo wen says that the ts‘ing fan resembles the so. Thu! 
may suppose that it was a cyperaceous plant. , 
As to the other plants noticed by the ancient poets, the 
is Behmeria nivea [v. supra, 391], the huan a rush [see 455] 
Regarding the piao, a sedge grass, see the Rh ya [209] 
The ## sie is said by a iitnheinds on Sz‘ SIANGJ! 
to be the same as the A i [sce the Rh ya, ni But | 
dictionary yi pien explains it by so. 
Ameen. exot., 900, HE, setz, vulgo suge. Herba pals 
foliis arundinaceis brevioribus tensis, ex quibus ad al 
