320 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
KF tu fu ling. P., XVIII, 4. 7., CLXXVI. 
Tu [=native] fu ling = Pachyma Cocos. See 350]. This 
is a more modern name for another sort of China-root which 
is known also by many other names, viz. 4+ BL 9 tu (native) 
pei hia, Will FR AH ts‘z* (prickly) chu ling [pig tubers. See 
352], Il] 7 BE shan chu fen (mountain-pig’s dung), 4 i A 
leng fan t‘uan [comp. Witttams’ Chinese Commercial Guide, 
114], fill 38 HEE sien i Liang (food left by the immortals), HE 
ying fan (hard food), and [Ij Hb BE shan ti li (mountain 7 
ground chestnut). 
Li Sui-cuen says that this is the plant noticed by ; 
T‘ao Hune-xrno under the name of 3% §R kt Yi ya Uiang™ in 
" This name (Yi yii liang) is properly that of a minera’. [See P., X, 9.] 
As my friend Professor A. BILLEQUIN informed me, it is the so-called eagle- 
stone, a kind of argillaceous oxide of iron. But the same name is applied 
in the P. to three different plants, viz. Smilax, Ophiopogon [see 104] 
and the plant ai uf shi ts‘ao, P., XXII, 17.—7., CV [without figure]. 
The shi ts‘ao is first noticed in the Po wu chi [3rd cent. ], where pele 
stated that in the islands of the Hastern Sea there grows a plant which is 
called shi. It has an edible grain-fruit, like barley, which ripens in the 
7th month, acd is gathered by the people till the beginning of winter. It 
is also called H PR ayy tsz‘ jan ku (spontaneous grain) and Yi yi liang, 
not to be confounded with the mineral of the same name. = 
Li Sty [8th cent.] says:—The fruit of the shi is like a ball. y bsg 
gathered in the 8th month and eaten by those [eastern] people, but in China 
it is unknown. 
WILLIAMS [Dict., 758] understands that the shi is a floating plant 
probably Zostera, but the Chinese text above translated does not say that 
it fluats on the sea, : 
Ameen, exot., 900 :—Fiff setz, vulgo suge, Herba palustris, foliis arundi- 
naceis brevioribus tensis, ex quibus ad albedinem redactis construuntut 
e‘egantissimi pilei, quibus teguntur deambulantes foemine. 
Phon zo, XLII, 3:—Same Chinese name, Carex pumiia, Thbg. J® 
ponice : gobo mugi, 
SIEB., (con., 9 :—Same Chinese name. Japonice: futegusa, Caricea! 
Radices fibrose adhibentur pro penicellis scriptoriis. 
MATSUMURA, 41:—Same Chinese name. Japonice: kobo-mugi, Care 
macrocephala, Willd. 
