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The root (bulbs) officinal. Taste pungent. Nature uniform. 
Non-poisonous. 
| Pie lu:—Other names : $j BE kin mu, 2 BW ku ts‘ai, 
BE ku hua, 22 FE kung ts‘ao. The pei mu grows in the 
country of Tsin [Shan si, App. 353]. The root is dug up 
in the 10th month and dried in the sun. 
T‘ao Hune-King:—The root resembles cowry shells 
collected together, whence the name pet mu. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—Leaves like garlic-leaves. The 
toot ought to be gathered in the 4th month, when garlic is 
_ Teady. In later months it is not good. The best drug is 
Pe brought from Jun chou [in Kiang su, App. 111], King chou 
[in Hu pei, App. 146] and Siang chou [in Hu pei, App. 
— 805). It is also produced in Kiang nan [South of the 
Yang tsz‘, App. 124]. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—Localities enumerated where 
the drug is produced, in present Kiang su, An hui, Ho nan, 
Hu pei, 8. Shan si. Its leaves resemble those of buckwheat. 
At bears greenish flowers resembling in shape the ku tsz 
[Convolvulus. See 169]. The root is dug up in the 8th 
month. It consists of many (small) bulbs collected together 
and resembling cowry shells. There are many sorts of 
‘pet mu, 
oS Ch., VII, 42:—Pei mu, Representation of a tuberous 
_ Plant with hastate leaves. 
‘si Lour., Flor. cochin., 423 :—Thalictrum sinensé (a plant 
‘“nown only from Louregrro’s description), sinice poi mu. 
‘Radix tuber subrotundus, solidus, albissimus. Root used in 
‘Medicine. 
+ ’ P. Smirn, 225 :— Pei mu, Uvularia grandiflora, and 
ne) pei mu, Hermodactyle or corms of Colchicum. Both 
nti! cations are wrong. 
