176 BOTANICON sINICUM. 
The accounts given by the ancient authors of this plant, 
which has so many names, are confused and not charac- 
teristic. Probably several plants are confounded. Su Kune 
[7th cent.] says, that the ¢ien ming tsing is also called 
i BE Gt huo lu ts‘ao. The people in the south call it 
Jb F& t2 sung (ground cabbage), also t’en man tsing (heavenly 
rape), for the leaves resemble cabbage or rape-leaves, and 
are of a sweet, pungent taste. 
Li Sut-cuEen :—The young leaves of the t‘ien men tsing 
are wrinkled like cabbage-leaves or leaves of the mustard 
plant. They smell somewhat of foxes, but can be eaten when 
cooked. The plant has small yellow flowers like small = 
Asters. The fruit resembles that of the t‘ung hao (Chrysan- 
themum Roxburghiz). _ The seeds stick to people’s clothes. — i 
They have at first an unpleasant, fox-like smell, but after 
heating become fragrant. The root is white. Other names Z 
of the plant: {j% jij HA tsou mien ts‘ao (wrinkled leaf), 
EE RG ZF mu chu kie (sow mustard), The fruit (seed) is 
called #3 Hi 4o shi (crane’s louse), the root - 4+ JR tu 
niu si. ’ 
The ho shi (crane’s louse) or seed of the tien ming tsing, 
according to the authors of the T‘ang and Sung periods, is 
an important medicine. It is of a bitter and pungent taste, 
slightly poisonous, and reputed to destroy insects. 
Cust. Med., p. 366 (358):— Zo shi exported 1885 
from Canton 12 piculs,—p. 158 (296), from Shang hai 
5.49 piculs,—p. 198 (204), from Ning po 1.15 picul. 
Ch. XI, 16:—T en ming tsing. The drawing may . 
perhaps be intended for Carpesium [v. infra]. 
Tavar., Cat., 56:—T%en ming tsing. Semen Amaran- 
thacee.—P. Suirn, 12, 
In Japan the name KK % fH is applied to Carpesum 
abrotanoides, L. See So moku, XV, 62. This plant, of the 
