PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL Works. — 359 
- Hia Calendar, 39 :—Third month. 3 #8. Dovanas trans- 
lates: —Droop the willows. But the first character stands 
probably for Z, and I understand this sentence to mean: 
the poplars are in seed. 
There are in the environs of Peking two poplars, both 
very common trees. One of them, the Populus alba, L., is 
a tall tree with large, roundish leaves inserted upon long, 
slender foot-stalks ; they produce a rustling noise, like P. 
: tremula, The Chinese call it ~y #h pat yang (white poplar) 
or Fo HE RB tw ye yang (poplar with large leaves). In Hupei 
pai yang is P, tremula, L. [see Henry, le. 543]. The 
other Peking poplar; P. suaveolens, Fischer, does not attain 
the height of the white poplar ; its leaves are also smaller, 
oblong, pointed. This is the ov BS PB sao ye yang (small 
leaved poplar), called also PF Hb ts‘’ng yang or green poplar. 
Both are correctly described and depicted in Ch. [XXXV, 
4,5] only the names in the two plates have been confounded. 
og XXXVb, 27, pai yang. The Ku kin chu [4th century} 
defines the differences between the Chinese poplars and 
leaves, ee 
Another ancient work, quoted in P., says; regarding ae S oe 
White poplar, that its leaves quiver even when the air is still, 
Producing a noise like heavy rain. . 
Phon zo, LXXXIV, 22, & '}, Populus tremula, 
V. supra, 252. ae aay 
524. —The #8 liu of the Classics is the willow, and especially 
Sali babylonica, Is, a Chinese tree in common cultivation” 
all over the empire. At least the Chinese nowadays by liv 
always understand this tree. Lreae means that 
the willow, stating that the pai yang has round leaves, the’ a - 
ising yang oblong leaves, and the liu or willow long narrow 
wee 
the drooping willow ; but although in Europe Schabylomiea = oe 
‘Sealled the weeping or drooping willow—for the — 
tree always represents the form with drooping b eS 
