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yellow colour and resembles the Rhubarb root and also a 
carrot. Other names: = fi Je EF yang t% ta huang (sheep’s- 
hoof Rhubarb), Ak 3 28 pai tu ts‘ai, 4G ZR niu she ts‘ai 
(ox-tongue vegetable), and 7k BE FE shui huang kin. 
Ch, XVIII, 8:—Yang ti. Rude drawing. Probably 
Rumew is intended. Also Kiu huang, LI, 21. 
At Peking yang t% or niu she is Rumex crispus, L., and 
other species. A Rumex in the Peking mountains is called 
ck X& FF tu (native) ta huang (Rhubarb). Its root resemble 
a cloven hoof. 
P. Smirn, 87:—Dock, yang t‘i.—Henry, Chin. pl., 
308 :—4 7G DA niu she t‘ou, in Hu pei, Rumex acetosa, L. 
Amen. evot., 911 :—2 $ jote’, communiter si. Thlaspi 
majus, foliis Lapathi, caulibus in spicas excurrentibus, capsulis 
Burse pastoris, intermixtis foliolis, confertas. [It does not 
seem that a Rumex is meant. ] 
So moku, VII, 27 :—2e 34 Rumex japonicus, Meisn. 
Stes., Gcon., 108 :—Rumex crispus. Japonice: gist 
gist. Sinice : == fi. Remedium agricolis in exanthematibus. 
194.—3¥ YH ch‘ang pu. P., XIX,8. T., LXVIIL. 
Comp. Classics, 376. 
Pen king:—Ch‘ang p‘u. The root is officinal. Taste 
_ pungent. Nature warm. Non-poisonous. 
Pie lu:—Other names: & BR ch‘ang yang. The ch‘ang 
pu grows in Shang lo [in Shen si, App. 274] in ponds and 
Swamps, also in Yen tao, belonging to Shu [Sz ch‘uan, 
App. 406, 292]. The best drug is that which contains nine 
joints within a space of an inch of the root. The bedewed 
Toot (?)* cannot be used. The root is dug up in the 5th 
and 12th months and dried in the shade. 
” oe RR. 
