956 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Hanpury’s Pharmacographia, is more or less conical or 
tapering, enlarged and knotting at the summit, which is 
crowned with the base of the stem, Numerous branched root- 
lets spring from its sides. If dug up in the summer it will be 
found that a second or younger root [occasionally a third] is 
attached to it near its summit by a very short branch, and 
is growing out of it on one side. This second root (fu tsz* of 
the Chinese) has a bud at the top which is destined to 
produce the stem of the next season. 
Ch., XXIV, 21:—Fu tsz‘. Good drawing of an Aconite. 
Tatar., Cat., 24:—Fu tsz‘, Radix Aconiti chinensis.— 
Ibid., 52:—Sheng fu tsz‘, Radix Aconiti chinensis eruda— 
Lbid., 63:—Wu tou, Radix Aconiti?i—Ibid., 5:—Ts‘ao wu 
tou, Radix Aconitz. 
Hanpury, Se. pap. 258:—Jj] ¥3 Ch‘uan wu (tou), 
described and figured. Root of Aconitum. This figure may 
serve to explain the Chinese name “crow’s head” for the 
root of Aconite and the “horns” in the ancient Chinese 
descriptions of the drug. 
Ibid. :—-Ei BS ts‘ao wu (tow), figured and described. 
Tubers of Aconitum japonicum, Thbg. (=A. Lycoctonum, L., 
floribus ochroleucis). 
P. Smirx, 2, 3.— 
The Index Fl. sin. [I, 20] enumerates eight ier of 
Aconitum recorded from China. 
Father Davin [ Journ. Trois. voy., 1, 8367] mentions an 
Aconitum (Napellus?) cultivated for medical use in Southern 
Shen si and Sz ch‘uan. 
Henry, Chin. pl., 534 :—¥2 9% wu tu, Aconitum Fischer?. 
Rich,? This species occurs wild in the mountains (of Hu 
pei) and is used as a drug. Henry’s native collector er 
plained that the tuberous root of the first year’s growth Is 
known as wu tu ; a secondary tuber, which comes in the 
second year, is called Pf = fu tsz‘; and a smaller tuber, 
which it is rare to find, appearing in the third year, is 7M 
