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also thought to be slightly poisonous, and the juice is taken in 

 fevers and to counteract arrow poison and snake bite. It is 

 considered to be antiseptic, and is therefore applied to aphthous 

 sore mouth and fever sores. 



FRAGARIA WAIvLICHIL— M ^ ^ (Ti-yang-mei). 

 This plant grows north of the Yangtse in moist, shady places, 

 and in the fourth and fifth months there is fruit. Nothing 

 farther is said in regard to it in the Pentsao. The stem of the 

 plant is used in dysentery and chronic diarrhoea. 



FRAXINUS PUBINERVUS.— ^ ^ (Ch'in-p'i), 172. 

 The first character is properly written :j^ (Chin), Another 

 name is ^ :^ (K'u-li), but this name is applied in the Peking 

 mountains to Fi'aximis Imngeana^ which is one of the plants 

 upon which the wax insect lives. The ChHn-pH is a tree with 

 a green bark. It is not distinguished by the Chinese from 

 some varieties of Querais. The bark, when steeped in water, 

 is said to produce a bluish indelible ink. The common name 

 of the wood is j^ ;j^ /fc (Pai-hsiin-mu). The bark is the 

 part used in medicine, and its virtues seem in the main to be 

 those of an astringent. It is prescribed in catarrhal fever, 

 inflamed eyes, fluxes, and in decoction to wash snake and 

 insect bites. It is also regarded as tonic to the genito-uriuary 

 system. 



FRITILLARIA ROYLKL— ^ # (Pei-mu), 993. This 

 liliaceous plant grows in different parts of China. It is culti- 

 vated in Chekiang and exported from Ningpo. It is also much 

 cultivated in Szechuan, and this variety is regarded as much 

 superior to any other. The Reports of Trade for 1869 and 1880 

 give interesting notices of this drug. The Hankow reports for 

 1879 also speak of the Szechuan drug. Father David mentions 

 the Pei-mu as growing in the high mountains of Thibet, having 

 yellow flowers, and the corms being used in medicine. That 

 growing in Chekiang has grayish-white flowers. According to 

 Henry, the name Pei-imi is applied in Hupeh to an orchid, 

 which is not the same as the Szechuan drug. Porter Smith's 

 identifications of this drug are all wrong, unless that of Uvu- 



