PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 297 
Phon z, LUXXXVIII, 1, #f§ 4s, Prunus japonica, [See 
also Horr. & Scuuures, 461, and Sires. & Zuec., Flora 
 japon., 1, 172, tab. 90.] The small red acid fruit is dried 
in Japan and eaten. The kernels used in medicine. 
JFap., 1776. Comp. supra, 306, infra, 476, 477- 
475.— fe bt T'ang ti. Jaen terms this likewise the 
sparrow-plum, also aspen plum. 
Shi king, 35 :—How great is that luxuriance, those flowers 
of the sparrow-plum (fang ti)... 6. the flowers like 
those of the peach-tree and the plum (/). 201:—On the 
mountains are the bushy sparrow-plums [the text has only 
i #. Mao explains that tang ti is meant]. 
Coxr. Analects, 90 :—How the flowers of the aspen plum 
(“ang ti) flutter and turn. 
Very different views are held by the Chinese commentators 
about this tree ; some say that the tang ti is a plum, others 
make it to be an aspen. 
The Rh ya [305] has Bf HE tiang ti, also called B ?. 
Kuo P% explains that it is a tree resembling the pa’ yang 
— white poplar, and is also called fu i. The Shuo wen 
Writes the above name 3 § t‘ang ti and identifies it with 2. 
__* Mao explains the tang ti in the Shi king by i, as in the 
Rh ya. P, [XXXVb, 29] refers the tang t of the Shi to 
the tree $f 4% fu i, also called $$ RB é yang © poplar). 
Li Sut-cney [after the Ku kin chu, 4th century] describes it 
as a kind of poplar or aspen with quivering leaves. 
Ch. XXXV, 4 gives fu i as a synonym for 6 % 
pat yang, the white poplar. The drawing in the Phon zo 
- (LXXX1V, 24] under $k #% seems to represent a Populus, 
but according to S1esoLp [Flora Japon, L, 87, tab. 42, and 
tones. ined. IIT] this Chinese name is in Japan applied to 
Aronia asiatica, a small tree of the order Pomacee, with 
_ White flowers in racemes, It is said to have been introduced 
— Tnto Japan from China. 
