MATERIA MEDICA,OF ,THEARCIENT CHINESE. 535 
Chy XXXII, 6:—Fu ling. The drawing represents 
large nodular masses, 
Father Martini, about 240 years ago, mentions the 
Chinese drug fu Lin produced in Sz ch‘uan [see my Larly 
Eur, Res. Bot. Chin., pp. 19, 20]. 
A CuEYER, Specimen Medicine sinice (1682), 189 :—Pe 
Jo lim (white fu ling), est radix insipida subdulcis temperata 
etc. . . . Est idem quod Lusitanice dicitur Pao de China 
(China wood), nisi quod album et multo melius sit rubeo 
illo, et etiam carius multo.—Crzyer’s red fo ling is Radix 
Smilacis. Comp. supra, 179. 
Du Hatpg, la Chine, I, 30, I, 647.—Grosigr, la Chine, 
Il, 324, 328, 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 710 :—Ad radices Pinorum sylvestrium 
magne longsevitatis in provincia boreali Chinensi su chuyen 
[Sz ch‘uan] gigni solent queedam tubera, subrotunda, magna, 
Scabra, fusca, intus albissima, que ab Europxis vocantur 
Radix sinensis alba, ab ipsis vero Sinensibus Pe fu lin. 
Horum tuberum decocto feliciter utuntur in praxi medi¢a, 
Precipue in morbis pulmonum et vesicw. Radix Sinensis 
rubra provenit ex diversa planta, que a Linneo dicitur Smilax 
Chine. 
Tarar., Cat., 23, 2:—Fu ling or pai (white) fu’ ling, 
Pachyma pinetorum. Fungus maximus. 
Gauger, 18:— Fu ling, described and figured. But 
Gaucer is mistaken in supposing that it is the root of a 
Dioscorea or Tamus. 
Wituiams, Chin. Commerc. Guide, 114, sub China root. 
In 1859 the Rev. M. J. Berxetey published in the 
Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. (LI, 102] an interesting article 
