280 - -BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Fap., 1146, Imperata arundinacea, Cyr., = H. 272. Cy 
Sa L343 
» 1147, Lutperata tinctoria, Miq., F5 WT #- 
» 1094, Hierochloa borealis, Roem. & Schult., =A %. 
Saccharum spicatum, v. Sm., 188. A., XV, ae 
Pr., 222, gives Eulalia japonica, Trin., as Fp HB. i 
—-460,.—% Kien, a grass mentioned in the Shi and likened to 
the mao. Laas calls it the white-flowered rush or rope-T 
Shi king, 209 :—The moat of the east gate is fit to 
the rope-rush (kien). 416 :—The fibres of the white-flo 
rush (¢ #8 #) are bound with the white grass (mao, 
the preceding). In the Shi king [146] the character # f 
generally applied to the sow-thistle, denotes, according to t 
Chinese commentators, the kien grass [v. supra, 365]. 
In the Rh ya [48] we have the wild k/en, also called 
white-flowered. Kuo P*o says it is a kind of mao. 
explains that the kien is the same as the mao, which af 
has been steeped is called kien. In the Shan hai kin 
stated that mats were made out of the white kien and 
in the sacrifices to the mountain spirits. Li ki, U 
5 Mourning Rites.” 4° J Lecce translates ¢ 
of straw.” 
Lu x1 :—The kien resembles the mao, but it is glabro 
The root contains a white flour. The plant is flexible. 4 
steeping and drying it, strings and cordage can ben 
its fibres, 
P., XIU, 45, speaks of the kien under the head of pa 
as ofa grass akin to the mao. It has prickly awns, f 
in autumn (the mao flowers in summer). Ch. [V I, ‘, 
figures under kien a Graminea which Henry [1c 
gene with Anthistiria ciliata, L., a kind of © 
grass” in Hupei where it is also known under the: 
e F # pao tsz* ts‘ao, 
