PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 277 
redactis construuntur elegantissimi pilei, quibus teguntur 
deambulantes faminz. Suge, as we have seen, is the 
Japanese name for Scirpus maritimus. —— 
459.—Z Mao or fy #F pai mao (white mao),” a grass 
repeatedly mentioned in the Classics. Leaae calls it the 
white grass. 
Shi king, 84:—A dead antelope wrapped up with the white 
—gfass (pai mao). 232 [“ Life in Pin”’] :—Let us in the day- 
time collect the grass (mao) and at night twist it into ropes. 
416:—The fibres from the white-flowered rush. { # v= 
[see the newt] ave bound with the white grass (pat mao). 
: - Chou li, 1, 84:—Le prépose au territoire hors banlieue 
— fournit quand il y a des sacrifices les plantes odoriférantes 
[siao, v. 435] et les herbes pour envelopper (mao), Com- 
-mentator B, (Coena Hian):—Les secondes servent pour 
envelopper les pidces des victimes et clarifier le vin dans les 
sacrifices offerts aux génies de Vintérieur et de l’extérieur. ‘ 
a Li ki, 1, 446 [Sacrifices] :—In straining the new liquor for 
the cup they used the white mao grass. IL, 165 :—At the 
burial of a great officer, the progress of the bier was guided — 
by the chief artizan with a reed of white grass (mao) 
in his hand. ao Bees 
‘Tso cavan, 139, 140, [B.C. 655.] Lraqr’s translation 
reads :—Your tribute of covered cases of the three-ribbed 
tush [the Chinese text has only H @% #, tribute of mao 
grass for Wrapping up,] is not rendered, so that the king’s 
Sacrifices are not supplied with it, and there is nothing 
With which to strain the spirits. | 
See also the FA ya [183]. | s 
dt Sao, 55:—Les herbes tswen et houi [fragrant herbs, v. 417, 
#06) sont transformées en herbes mao ou mauvaises herbes. _ 
It is n. ‘ ; woe 
Os a cng ele ly fret ncn Sr 
* “omp. 2. XIVb, 68 ; Ch. XXV, 71, Phon zo, XI, 8, 
