252 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
143.— Pt FF fu tse. P., XVIIa, 44. 7., CXXVIL 
Pen king :—Fu tsz‘. The root is officinal. Taste acrid. 
Nature warm. Very poisonous. 
Pie lu:—The fu tsz‘ is produced in Kien wei [in Sz 
ch‘uan, App. 140] in mountain-valleys, also in Kuang Han 
[in Sz ch‘uan, App. 161]. That root which is dug up in 
the winter months is called fu tsz‘, that taken up in the 
spring is & YE wu tou (crow’s head). It is of a sweetish 
taste. 
T‘ao Hune-K1na explains that fu itsz‘ and wu t‘ou are 
names applied to the root of the same plant. That taken up 
in the 8th month is called fu tsz‘, and that with eight horns is 
the best. The root dug up in spring, when the stem begins to 
rise up, is called wu ¢‘ou, from its resembling a crow’s head in 
shape. It shows two protuberances (or branches). That with 
a pedicle like an ox-horn [ perhaps he means the tail into ~ 
which the root tapers] is called Fs 1 wu hui (crow’s beak). 
The inspissated juice is called Hf Ff she wang. The J iff tien 
hiung [comp. 144] resembles the fu tsz‘ but is more slender, 
from three to four inches long. The {iJ } tse ts‘ [comp. 
145] is a large lateral horn of the fw tsz‘. All these names 
refer to the root of the same plant. The Pen king [he means 
the Pie lu], however, considers them to be applied to different 
plants, each of them growing in a different locality [see 
further on, 144-146]. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The drugs ten hiung, fu tsz* and 
wu t‘ou all come from the province of Shu [Sz ch‘uan], the 
best sorts from Mien chou and Lung chou [both in Sz ch‘uan, 
App. 221, 210]. The drugs produced in Kiang nan [Fu 
kien, Kiang su, Che kiang, App. 124] are not much used. 
Ta Mine [10th cent.]:—The ¢‘ien hiung is of a large siz 
and long. It has but few pointed horns, and is of a solid 
structure,—the fu tsz‘ is large and short, solid, its horns are a 
