322 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Lu kts account of the hazel is vague and not characteri: 
Li Sui-cuen fin P., XXX, 50, under chen] gives a be 
description of it. By the drawing under chen, Ch, Xk hae 
evidently the hazel is intended. 
The mountains of Northern China abound in hazels. The 
nuts are called chen tsz*. There are two species. The nuts 
of both are edible and sold in the markets, The fruit ¢ 
Corylus heterophylla, Fisch, with its spreading involacre 
resembles that of our common C. avellana. But in the othe 
species, the C. mandshurica, Maxim. (which by some 
considered as a variety of the American C, rostrata, ¢ i 
the campanulate involucre is longer than the nut ; it cover 
‘not only the whole nut but is contracted beyond the apex 
of the nut into a long rostrum. The whole involucre 
covered with stinging bristles. 
Both these species occur also in Japan. 
Amen. exot., 816, Hf sin, vulgo fast basibami, fa. 
peregrina sativa, nuce oblonga, calyce brevi non barbato 
SteBoip, Syn. plant. econ. jap., 158, Corylus americana, fas 
bama, #&. Edunt nuces. Siepoup, Icon. inedit., VIL, same 
Chinese name, Corylus heterophylla. [See also the Phon 
LAVIST3, Ten: 3 
E., 225, family #. Figure more like an oak or chestnut (ree 
Fap., 690, Corylus heterophylla, Fisch. 
S., XI, 32. C., 38, C. heterophylla (the hazels with flat top)- 
C. rostrata, Ait., (with pointed top). . 
497.—4#R Tsiuo. This character is met with three times 
the Shi. Lxace translates it by pepper plant. 
Shi king, 179:—The clusters of the pepper plant (uit 2 
large and luxuriant, would fill both your hands. +++" 
pepper plant, how its shoots (f€ rather branches) extem 
207 :—Give me a stalk of the pepper plant. 603 :—Pep 
like smell. Mao explains tsiao by 3 # (fragram 
Another ancient commentator says that the tsiao” was 
in flavoring wine. : 
