144 BOTANICON sINICUM. 
yellow flowers. Fruit (seed) like that of the aé, small. 
The old plant is used for thatching roofs, whence it is also 
called $F BY fou la. 
Ch., XI, 3:—An li. Representation of an Artemisia. 
So moku, XVI, 21 :—¥§ Ef Artemisia Keiskiana, Miq. 
(known only from Japan, E. Manchuria and Corea).— 
Horrm. & Scuur. [548] identify the same Chinese name 
with Siphonostegia chinensis, Benth., but this seems to bea 
mistake. Comp. infra, 86. 
hoa ee ee, eV, OT. 0: 
Pen king:—Shi. Fruit receptacles with the achenes 
used in medicine. Taste bitter and acid. Nature uniform. 
Non-poisonous. 
This is the Chinese divining plant, about which see j 
Bot. sin., II, 428, Achillea sibirica. Comp. Lecas’s Yi king, 4 
Appendix, V, p. 422 :—« Anciently when the sages made the | 
“Yi in order to give mysterious assistance to the spiritual 
“intelligences, they produced the rules for the use of the 
“divining plant shi.” : 
Pie lu:—The shi fruit is produced in the mountain 
valleys of Shao shi {in Ho nan, App. 281]. It is gathered 
in the 8th and 9th months, and is dried in the sun. 
Su Kune [7th cent.|:—-The stem of this plant is used 
in divination (3%). 
Su Sune [11th cent. |:—The shi is found growing mee 
the sacrificial hall of the white tortoise at Shang ts‘ai hie — 
in the prefecture of Ts‘ai chou [in Ho nan, App. 276, 342]: 
It has the appearance of the hao (Artemisia), grows from 
five to six feet high. From thirty to fifty stems spring UP 
from one root. Late in autumn purple flowers appear - 
the end of the branches, They resemble the ki hua (Chry- 
santhemum, Aster). Fruit like those of the ai (Artemisia). 
